are willing to believe what you tell them,
provided you tell them convincingly enough.
The
Boredom Pitfall
Try
to make yourself sound as interesting as possible. I mean it. If you are
painting a self portrait you might as well use the right colors. Before we
leave our homes what do we do? We all spend at least five minutes in front of
our mirrors in an attempt to make our selves look as presentable and as
impressive as possible.
Well,
the same thing applies to our profile. Remove all drab details about yourself
that might be of no interest to the reader. If you job is something like editing
journals on the etymology of words derived from ancient Aramaic, well, just
say that you have an editing job.
Similarly
try to bear in mind that anything can be put down in two ways. You can either
make it interesting or boring; so work on it until you are sure that it will
not bore a reader to death and the best test for this would be to hand it over
to a close friend and ask that friend’s opinion. Nobody likes a bore so take
all efforts not to sound like one.
The
Vagueness Pitfall
At
the same time what ever you put down about yourself must not be confusing. It
just does not work to put down a statement like, “while I am not really given
to sports, nor am I considered to be an outdoor person, I