your projection in the world

Isn't it cool to have a sense of yourself, to see the broad strokes and the image that you create. Sometimes you just gotta step back and see the cult of personality that you are and in other people too, to see the image of them.
I wonder how much of it is an image of a person that you have created, and how much is an expression from the person. I guess the real expression is genuine -but the image that you create of a person is important too. It is like a blueprint, and maybe that tells you more about yourself than about them, but that can't be bad a bad thing either.
What I find fascinating is when someone that knows me really well tells me something I say or do that I don't even realize! For instance, a friend once told me that my nose moves slightly when I talk, and it's distracting. I didn't even realize that!
What are some of your thoughts?