"most people felt their sense of importance was greater than their actual importance"
This is the part I have a problem with. Importance is entirely subjective. It's not something that can be objectively measured. That means there's nothing you can judge a personal ranking against.
I could put 10, because I think I'm very important to my mum. If my mum said I'm actually only a 5 (bitch!) then perhaps you could say I think I'm more important to my mum than I actually am. But if I put a 10 because I believe I'm important in many ways, not only to other people, but to the world, or to God, or to myself, how are you supposed to prove me wrong? How can you judge how accurate my self-assessment is?
So unfortunately I think whatever report you read is, in all likelihood, bullshit, the kind of rubbish you find in cheap style magazines.
Is it normal to feel more important than you are?
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"most people felt their sense of importance was greater than their actual importance"
This is the part I have a problem with. Importance is entirely subjective. It's not something that can be objectively measured. That means there's nothing you can judge a personal ranking against.
I could put 10, because I think I'm very important to my mum. If my mum said I'm actually only a 5 (bitch!) then perhaps you could say I think I'm more important to my mum than I actually am. But if I put a 10 because I believe I'm important in many ways, not only to other people, but to the world, or to God, or to myself, how are you supposed to prove me wrong? How can you judge how accurate my self-assessment is?
So unfortunately I think whatever report you read is, in all likelihood, bullshit, the kind of rubbish you find in cheap style magazines.