Lessons Learned: Self-disclosure

Hiep keeps telling us to put ourselves on the line, to break down out barriers. I want to say that I feel good about sharing what I did... I could have talked about something as simple as the first time I used a computer, or the first time I won a chess tournament. But I took the moment that galvanized my my hate of personal violence and my loss of faith in organized spirituality.

I regret sharing what I did. I think it was more than the rest were willing to know, a bit deeper than they were willing to see me. It would be easy to just play up my own mask of the tech nerd, the guy with the weird hobbies, the man with too many words. It's not comfortable for people to think there's something else that might be existing deeper, another person that could have been sitting where I do.

I do not regret pushing my boundaries, because it's one of the aspects of myself that I do need to work more on, but I should have chosen better for my audience. I'm supposed to be going into marketing, and that doesn't mean honesty, it means illusion painted using honesty. It means that I should be revealing just enough to sell myself and my product, enough to give people the picture (information) they need with the colors (details & values) they want. I'm going to keep pushing myself, but I do need to better remember the audience and what it is they want me to be.