Questions Questions . . . Any Answers?
Interesting questions. I personally write more honestly to some audiences than others. But regardless, there is always something that I don't share. What I don't share isn't always necessarily private, just a bit of information that a particular audience might not know. I'm not sure how honest I'll be in this format. Remains to be seen. And really, I'm the only one who will know, right?
The question of whether you can write honestly about yourself is a harder to answer. I like to think that I'm very self-aware and thus capable of being honest about myself if I feel like it. But the latter is the problem, do we always feel like being honest with ourselves? Sometimes it's nicer to believe a version of yourself that you like better. I also don't know that anyone can answer this question as any critique of someone else's honesty is necessarily colored by their own view of that person. Plus, in connection with question 1, how well do we really ever know someone else to judge their honesty if we all hide parts of ourselves?
Along the same lines, are you more honest when sharing information to a group or one on one? I find I share much more openly one on one that to more than that, even if I consider the whole group to be close to me.
On another semi-related note (more to the comment on trying to remember something to say during the day and then blanking out when you hit the computer screen) does it bother any of you that major world events can happen in a day and there is absolutely no mention of them at all among people at work? Is this just my experience? Is it for fear of offending people with a semi-political opinion? Is it that our profession leads to a single-minded insular focus? I just find it so weird. I've never been in an environment so seemingly out of touch with the outside world.
The question of whether you can write honestly about yourself is a harder to answer. I like to think that I'm very self-aware and thus capable of being honest about myself if I feel like it. But the latter is the problem, do we always feel like being honest with ourselves? Sometimes it's nicer to believe a version of yourself that you like better. I also don't know that anyone can answer this question as any critique of someone else's honesty is necessarily colored by their own view of that person. Plus, in connection with question 1, how well do we really ever know someone else to judge their honesty if we all hide parts of ourselves?
Along the same lines, are you more honest when sharing information to a group or one on one? I find I share much more openly one on one that to more than that, even if I consider the whole group to be close to me.
On another semi-related note (more to the comment on trying to remember something to say during the day and then blanking out when you hit the computer screen) does it bother any of you that major world events can happen in a day and there is absolutely no mention of them at all among people at work? Is this just my experience? Is it for fear of offending people with a semi-political opinion? Is it that our profession leads to a single-minded insular focus? I just find it so weird. I've never been in an environment so seemingly out of touch with the outside world.
posted by LuLu at
11:13 PM
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There were peripheral mentions of London at my workplace yesterday. But they were still outnumbered more than 10 to 1 by mentions of Tom Cruise, Scientology, and expressions of horror at the picture of the World's Ugliest Dog which was circulating around.
I have looked at e-mail from 9/11 and it always shocks me that people were transacting business as if nothing had happened. I have heard one person brag about how they billed 14 hours on 9/11.
Scary.
My whole world simply stopped. How did that not happen for everyone else?
Exactly. London. 9-11. Even lesser events. At my work there is never any mention of anything effecting the rest of the world, but there is plenty of celebrity gossip. Now I love a good US Magazine story as much as the next person, but I absolutely fail to understand how there can be major happenings and no mention of them. The closest it ever gets is when a jury verdict on some public case comes down (e.g., Michael Jackson, Scott Peterson, Robert Blake . . . ) People will stop what they're doing to go watch that coverage. But should a war break out or hostages get taken or anything else, no one mentions it. Or bills through it. I will never understand that one.
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