{"id":91,"date":"2025-11-08T18:27:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T18:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storyreadin.com\/?p=91"},"modified":"2025-11-08T18:27:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T18:27:29","slug":"title-options-how-many-holes-do-you-see-a-test-that-taught-me-about-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storyreadin.com\/?p=91","title":{"rendered":"Title Options How Many Holes Do You See? A Test That Taught Me About Myself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I first saw the T\u2011shirt image on my feed between recipes and vacation photos. The caption promised a personality reveal: <strong>count the holes and it tells you whether you\u2019re a narcissist<\/strong>. I clicked because it was silly, then because I wanted to know what it would say about me.<\/p>\n<p>At first I counted quickly, confident I\u2019d get it right. When my number didn\u2019t match the answer in the comments, I felt a tiny sting\u2014annoyance, then curiosity. Why did I see it one way while others saw it another? The test was simple, but my reaction felt complicated.<\/p>\n<p>I asked a friend to look with me. She laughed and pointed out details I\u2019d missed. Instead of feeling defensive, I felt exposed in a useful way: my first impulse had been to insist I was right. That impulse was familiar. It showed up in meetings, in arguments, in the way I sometimes steer conversations back to me. Seeing it reflected in a silly image made it harder to ignore.<\/p>\n<p>Counting holes didn\u2019t diagnose me. What it did was hold up a mirror. <strong>Perception is personal<\/strong>, and so is pride. The image didn\u2019t prove I was a narcissist, but it did show me how quick I could be to protect my view of myself. That realization mattered more than any label.<\/p>\n<p>So I used the moment. I practiced pausing when I felt the urge to be right. I asked questions instead of correcting. I listened to my friend explain what she saw and tried to learn from it. The T\u2011shirt stopped being a test and became a prompt: a small, repeatable way to check whether I was choosing empathy over ego.<\/p>\n<p>I still don\u2019t know how many holes the \u201cright\u201d answer has, and honestly that\u2019s not the point anymore. What matters is that a tiny optical illusion nudged me toward something bigger\u2014<strong>awareness, humility, and the choice to be better<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first saw the T\u2011shirt image on my feed between recipes and vacation photos. The caption promised a personality reveal: count the holes and it tells you whether you\u2019re a &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-life-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storyreadin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storyreadin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storyreadin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storyreadin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storyreadin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/storyreadin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93,"href":"https:\/\/storyreadin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/93"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storyreadin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storyreadin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storyreadin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storyreadin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}