Saturday, September 6, 2008

Sharing all thoughts

Sharing all thoughts

I wonder if it's best to simply share all my thoughts. Radical honesty
some call it. Would I benefit by becoming fully integrated or would I
realize some thoughts are simply best left unspoken and unshared?

Blogs can be places where honesty flourishes, or where supposed
transparency is peddled. I write what's on my mind mostly, but I
confess to periodically writing what I want people to *think* is on my
mind.

Blogging is a phenomenon, a social global one at that, but it's not
without its issues....ditto that with Twitter.


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3 comments:

  1. I think everything you say is honesty, at some level---at the level that it is revealing. I suppose you could look at this from the level of how you approach your blog as a reader. Are you honest when you read your blog? Can it serve as a place for you to better understand yourself when you allow yourself to interact with it as you feel in a given moment, and then come back to it with an open and observant mind?

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  2. In fact, my blog is as honest as I can possibly be. It's me. And it is in fact a place that lets me better myself in many ways, observe my hangups and foibles, and learn from myself.

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  3. Radical honesty is an intriguing concept, but from anecdotal evidence, is extremely hard on the people around you. A. J. Jacobs, who wrote a book on reading the entire encyclopedia and a second on living by the Bible as literally as possible for a year, wrote an article on this for Esquire.

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