For a long time, I have been perplexed about American students' aggressive competitiveness

and their ability to think and respond to questions quickly in seminars.

This contributes greatly to battering my already low self-esteem again and again.

Last month, I attended a training session for potential museum docents who lead tours targeting 3rd-graders.

The trainer introduced the inquiry-based technique with which the museum educator asks only 3 questions to the members of the audience:

1. What do you see here? 2. What makes you say that? 3. What else?," and says nothing else.

so participating in the tour would like, a baseball player practicing with a pitching machine.

You respond to what you've proposed earlier over and over again.

I assume the American students I encountered in my graduate seminars are those who had survived from and excelled at

(and had possibly been enjoying) this repetitive game.

really hate Plurk's word limit... annoying.....

what you described is basically true, but why is it narcissism?

it basically train you to be instinctively dialoguing with yourself.

It's not necessarily a bad thing. But it could be internalized to form a sense of self-righteousness.

I feel what I am doing on Plurk is exactly this kind of process.

But since my self-esteem is below zero, I still have l a long way to catch and am far from being self-righteous.

chirashibento: hey, plurking more could help turn us into those over-confident Americans... which is not a bad thing

exactly, and your Karma certainly indicates how well you are at BSing. Now my BS skills have passed the stages of creation and maintenance

and proudly entered into the enlightened realm. Just steps away from BS Nirvana.

just call me BS master.