Half Empty or Half Full

This has always been a trick question used by psychiatrists and interviewers to understand how the human mind works..

Well the situations could be different when we take the well-defined example of the glass containing a liquid of any desirable form ..

Critics say it can be analysed in two ways : either the glass is empty or the glass is half full , the defined answers will tell you about your character traits. But wouldn’t these two answers be the already predictably set answers that anyone would answer and moreover would it be fair to judge the person by the set of answers he gives.

Well to a certain degree, it wouldn’t be fair because then we would be categorizing the person solely based on the answer that he gave when he was in a particular mindset. So does that mean that the person has to be constantly alert and on his toes so as to not be wrongly cataloged or categorized??

Well my question is, is it superceedingly right to categorize a person when he gives either of the answer and what is the possibility of a third answer?

Well if I was asked this question, I would have three different answers in three different situations.

If I had an emotionally wrecking week and I was just desperate to get a job and then comes the question of how do I perceive the glass, well anyone can guess that my answer could be “the glass is half empty”. Now critics say that this answer shows that I have a low morale and I am pessimistic person, but sorry to say wouldn’t that be your answer as well considering the circumstances.

Second instance, an absolutely confident week, great things happening in life, the answer to the same question would be “the glass is half full”. The answer would be so if the previous questions preceding this question were answered well. So does that mean that I am not an introvert or I don’t have a pessimistic attitude towards life?

And the third answer would be, “the glass is full”. Its half filled with water, the rest of the half is filled with air and my imagination to think so.

So what psychiatrists and the interviewers would then select is the third answer, being that I thought out of the box and on my toes.

3 different answers in three different situations…

So ideally it is not about the glass being full or not full , its merely my ability to write about this glass which is the main context of this blog.