Session #62: What drives beer bloggers?
First of all, my favorite thing about "The Session" is I always discover a new blogger and this month is no different. BREWPUBLIC, new to me, is the host of this month's Beer Blogging Friday and I have enjoyed reading their website/blog. You can visit them at http://brewpublic.com/ or on Facebook.
This month's topic directed me to dig deep into my soul and answer the question "What drives me to write about beer?". I thought about it for awhile and from many different angles but I always came back to a short and bittersweet answer: narcissism.
To keep from boring you with my personal philosophy and the history of my alter-ego HopHeadSaid (I am so narcissistic I even have an alter-ego), I will only focus on three major shifts in my deepening narcissism.
1. At first, it was the shallowest form of narcissism. All I wanted was for people to read my opinions about beer. It was all about me, me, me. This is the beer I drank, these are my thoughts about the beer. Now, go and drink or don't drink this beer.
2. My narcissism only deepened when I started covering the local beer scene. I became more interested (almost obsessively)in learning about the beer industry and its rock stars than I was in writing beer reviews. And while, I still wanted to share my discoveries through writing I was mostly interested in becoming a more knowledgable beer geek.
3. Recently, I have discovered my deepest phase of narcissism. Learning from industry experts only piqued my interest in learning more about beer related topics unfamiliar to me. Now, I actively seek out topics and learn all I can about them only to feed my own intrinsic thirst for knowledge and to increase my beer-geekness. It is a good place to be and one I hope you find yourself in soon as I use the energy and excitement of learning something new to fuel more engaging beer writings.
So, you see, it is my narcissism that has driven me to become a bigger beer geek and as a side affect a better writer. I have become quite comfortable in my own skin, narcissistically speaking, and I embrace what it has done for me and my writing.
Cheers!
ct.
This month's topic directed me to dig deep into my soul and answer the question "What drives me to write about beer?". I thought about it for awhile and from many different angles but I always came back to a short and bittersweet answer: narcissism.
To keep from boring you with my personal philosophy and the history of my alter-ego HopHeadSaid (I am so narcissistic I even have an alter-ego), I will only focus on three major shifts in my deepening narcissism.
1. At first, it was the shallowest form of narcissism. All I wanted was for people to read my opinions about beer. It was all about me, me, me. This is the beer I drank, these are my thoughts about the beer. Now, go and drink or don't drink this beer.
2. My narcissism only deepened when I started covering the local beer scene. I became more interested (almost obsessively)in learning about the beer industry and its rock stars than I was in writing beer reviews. And while, I still wanted to share my discoveries through writing I was mostly interested in becoming a more knowledgable beer geek.
3. Recently, I have discovered my deepest phase of narcissism. Learning from industry experts only piqued my interest in learning more about beer related topics unfamiliar to me. Now, I actively seek out topics and learn all I can about them only to feed my own intrinsic thirst for knowledge and to increase my beer-geekness. It is a good place to be and one I hope you find yourself in soon as I use the energy and excitement of learning something new to fuel more engaging beer writings.
So, you see, it is my narcissism that has driven me to become a bigger beer geek and as a side affect a better writer. I have become quite comfortable in my own skin, narcissistically speaking, and I embrace what it has done for me and my writing.
Cheers!
ct.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism
Narcissism is a term with a wide range of meanings, depending on whether it is used to describe a central concept of psychoanalytic theory, a mental illness, a social or cultural problem, or simply a personality trait. Except in the sense of primary narcissism or healthy self-love, "narcissism" usually is used to describe some kind of problem in a person or group's relationships with self and others. In everyday speech, "narcissism" often means egoism, vanity, conceit, or simple selfishness. Applied to a social group, it is sometimes used to denote elitism or an indifference to the plight of others. In psychology, the term is used to describe both normal self-love and unhealthy self-absorption due to a disturbance in the sense of self.
Narcissism is a term with a wide range of meanings, depending on whether it is used to describe a central concept of psychoanalytic theory, a mental illness, a social or cultural problem, or simply a personality trait. Except in the sense of primary narcissism or healthy self-love, "narcissism" usually is used to describe some kind of problem in a person or group's relationships with self and others. In everyday speech, "narcissism" often means egoism, vanity, conceit, or simple selfishness. Applied to a social group, it is sometimes used to denote elitism or an indifference to the plight of others. In psychology, the term is used to describe both normal self-love and unhealthy self-absorption due to a disturbance in the sense of self.
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