Do you or I know you or I?
OK, I accept that the sub-heading is slightly provocative but so what!
The fascination in truly knowing who we are is endless!
Back in January of this year, I penned an essay under the title of 20:20 self-awareness. Here’s a snippet from that post:
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” George Bernard Shaw is reputed to have once said!
Today’s essay on the challenges of speaking clearly to another, perhaps better described as communicating in a clear and unambiguous fashion, came out of a recent conversation with Jon Lavin, a good friend from my Devon days. (Jon offers services for business owners and entrepreneurs under his business banner of The People Workshop.)
Jon was explaining that the number one hurdle for businesses that are managing change, and for so many businesses managing change is practically a constant, is having clear communications within the team.
The essence of that, and other posts over the years, is that knowing others, communicating with others, is so much easier when we know ourself well.
Not just relevant to us humans, by the way. Dogs love knowing us sufficiently well that they can trust and understand our behaviours.
So all of that is an introduction to an article that was recently on the website of London-based Harley Therapy. The article is called How to Be Your Authentic Self. I have taken the liberty of republishing it in full here on Learning from Dogs. (See copyright statement at the end.)
ooOOoo
It’s a little after 6am.
I awoke this morning with the terrible realisation that I didn’t have permission to republish that article and, therefore, have ‘amended’ today’s post and removed the item..
Apologies to my readers.
Paul.
Learning from Dogs 
You are forgiven:)
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Thank you! 🙂
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Hi Paul, just to let your readers know: as you couldn’t republish my article I`m going to write a piece for you on authenticity and the struggle we all have to be true to ourselves. It’ll be posted in June, if all goes to plan! Have a great weekend Paul! 🙂
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Thank you, Ruth. That is appreciated and I look forward very much to receiving your guest article. You, too, have a great weekend.
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Reblogged this on Smorgasbord – Variety is the spice of life and commented:
Who are we really? I think we are little fluid with that one – morphing into whoever we are interacting with at the time – parents, siblings, friends, acquaintances, work colleagues and also dependent on what age we are. The older I get it has become more of a case of what you see is what you get! However, interesting to explore the article How to be Your Authentic Self – follow the link – perhaps I will ask my husband of 34 years the task of defining who he thinks I am – he seems to know me pretty well ………
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When Ruth’s guest post is published, I will explore the topic in more detail. Do let the readers know your husband’s view! 😉
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not on your life…..
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Ha! Ha! 🙂
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Ruth is a brilliant writer and wonderful lady… 🙂 I look forward too to her share.. 🙂
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Me too. I’m sure we will not be disappointed.
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