About life in the last third

A word cloud describing how people see me


As I turned 80, I became interested in how people saw me. In particular, I wanted to see if there would be a strong commonality among responses (there was) and whether their perceptions would significantly overlap with how I see myself (they did). And yes, I know I am being self absorbed but give me a break. I just turned 80.

I asked about 35 people to describe me in three to five words and received 30 responses. I then created a word cloud using ChatGPT. Since many words were synonyms of others, I asked it to consolidate similar terms to reduce redundancy. You can see the result below.

I also asked ChatGPT how people who knew of me but did not know me personally would describe me. It suggested that those who didn’t know me would likely focus on what I accomplished, while those who did know me would emphasize how I accomplished these things. I found that insight to be quite compelling.

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