I’ve been thinking about this for a while, but on the topic of what we choose to share on the internet or in published life, I think that personal standards and egoes are a pretty interesting topic.

As it goes, I think if you’re going to type something and spend time doing it, ideally it should be the case that every single part of what you type, say, or think should go out – otherwise why did you even come up with it in the first place? Are you crazy???

But the thing is, our standards often stop us – we said that phrasing wrong; we used the wrong word; other people will judge us if we release this in this way!

The thing is, I concede that having high editorial standards is a wonderful thing; we don’t want to create something that would embarrass us; we want our personal ego and feelings to be validated when we create things, much the way that a child wants to perfect a drawing or painting they’re giving their very best work into – and if it doesn’t come out right, we don’t want to show it to the world.

I guess that matters a little less if you’re talented, if you create stuff with sufficiently high quality control by virtue of just breathing, existing, not even really thinking so much – if that were the case, you don’t need to think too much since anything you do will end up amazing… Or do you just feel that it’s amazing but you have no good read on things?

All told, though, I do think it’s actually pretty impressive what you can get away with as a ‘post’ if you just really don’t care who reads what you’re saying and you’re just concerned with what you think about what you created. Regardless of whatever the origin of the behavior is, whether the creator’s talented or untalented, they at least are willing to share themselves out there with the world to be judged whether for good or for bad.

I respect that bravery, and hope to be more like these kinds of people.

Here’s to a year of better flow 🙂