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Personal vs Impersonal, Sharing Vs Oversharing, and the Lines Between Them
Welcome to my brain dump.
All kinds of things go through my head on a regular basis. Some you might read here or in another blog. Some are kept close to the vest — and either written out in my physical journal or not at all.
Whatever the case may be — I have a lot of thoughts on this topic. Specifically, personal versus impersonal and sharing versus oversharing.
Why does this matter? Because the nature of the society you and I live in tends to get hyper-focused on the extremes. People are frequently crying out about this extreme or that extreme, left versus right, positive versus negative, good versus evil, and so on. It’s become unfortunately rare for the middle to be recognized and heard or seen.
The thing is, almost nobody lives at or with a given extreme. Near, to one direction or the other — absolutely. But at? Not so much.
When it comes to the work I do, how personal I get and how much I share can fall between these extremes. But I believe it’s important to find and strike the balance between extremes and work from there — even when I lean more to one way or another.
