The Person Behind The Penguin
Five things you’re allowed to know about my identity and four things you’re not.
What constitutes your identity? If society is determined that we play identity politics then this is a question I feel compelled to ask. Who gets to define the parameters of who I am. What’s their agenda and why does it matter?
Here are five things I think I have defined as key to my identity. Reading this article means you’ll get to know more about the person behind the penguin. You’ll get a better picture of who I am without being able to identify me in any way at all.
And that’s the way it will stay for the foreseeable
I studied Psychology
Many of my pieces on Medium have a strong psychological slant to them and for good reason. When I was twelve I stole a book about reading body language from the school library. The book, still on a bookshelf at my parent’s house, is long overdue and the associated 10p per day fine is hundreds of pounds by now.
That book began my lifelong fascination with people and how they think.
I was the first person in my family to go to University and I transferred onto the course from English Literature because I didn’t like the look of the reading list. I specialised…
