Your honesty about your ambitions and dreams - presented here as almost naked vulnerability, about your desire for the book to succeed and raise your profile within your movement, and in your articulation of the sort of semi-delusional hope we have for our work, including your quoting a conversation you had in your head with someone you …
Your honesty about your ambitions and dreams - presented here as almost naked vulnerability, about your desire for the book to succeed and raise your profile within your movement, and in your articulation of the sort of semi-delusional hope we have for our work, including your quoting a conversation you had in your head with someone you admire and dream may be moved by you - is like nothing I've ever read.
You're amazing. Your lack of filter is of apiece with the approach you take to other topics important to you. A reason for your success so far is your almost brutal and alien devotion to honesty; it lets and allows you to research, analyze, and articulate positions on topics most pundits are afraid to touch (and certainly to address forthrightly as you do), and which many of us have in inchoate form and are appreciative to see presented and explored forthrightly.
Even in that arena though I shake my head in disbelief sometimes at the statements this approach leads you to publish. When applied to a topic like this one - of personal ambition and dreams for professional success, topics which arise from a different, but, among folks of my ilk at least, no less strong taboo establishing elaborate norms discouraging their forthright discussion and acknowledgment - your perspective and mode of discernment is basically outside my theory of mind, or beyond it to comprehend.
Of course I had to buy the dang thing to support you in response to that. Jeepers man, I hope you succeed and am happy to contribute, however, little, to your efforts and dreams.
Your honesty about your ambitions and dreams - presented here as almost naked vulnerability, about your desire for the book to succeed and raise your profile within your movement, and in your articulation of the sort of semi-delusional hope we have for our work, including your quoting a conversation you had in your head with someone you admire and dream may be moved by you - is like nothing I've ever read.
You're amazing. Your lack of filter is of apiece with the approach you take to other topics important to you. A reason for your success so far is your almost brutal and alien devotion to honesty; it lets and allows you to research, analyze, and articulate positions on topics most pundits are afraid to touch (and certainly to address forthrightly as you do), and which many of us have in inchoate form and are appreciative to see presented and explored forthrightly.
Even in that arena though I shake my head in disbelief sometimes at the statements this approach leads you to publish. When applied to a topic like this one - of personal ambition and dreams for professional success, topics which arise from a different, but, among folks of my ilk at least, no less strong taboo establishing elaborate norms discouraging their forthright discussion and acknowledgment - your perspective and mode of discernment is basically outside my theory of mind, or beyond it to comprehend.
Of course I had to buy the dang thing to support you in response to that. Jeepers man, I hope you succeed and am happy to contribute, however, little, to your efforts and dreams.