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Good evening everyone. Welcome to another dailyjim it is Jim Kleiber obviously it's Monday June 13 just before midnight. So I'm saying good evening to you. But you may be in a time where it's not a good evening, It may be a good morning, maybe Good afternoon. It may be a different version of that in your own language today. I wanted to talk about.
Culture, the culture around telling the truth maybe. Yeah, that sounds fun. I was watching the January 6th committee this morning doing some of their hearings and I think they were talking about how, some people under oath were saying things that were different than what they said to the public, certain statements that they made to the public maybe about the election and whether they thought the election was fraudulent or not, was not the same thing that they were saying when they were under oath and by being under oath meaning in a congressional hearing or in a court of law in the United States, people have to take an oath, which I believe goes, do you swear to tell the truth? The whole truth and nothing but the truth. So help you God. And then people respond. I do.
I find it so fascinating, frustrating as well that we often don't tell the truth unless we have to by law at the penalty of perjury. Um in perjury, meaning that if you don't tell the truth to the best of your recollection in court, I believe you can face criminal penalties for that. So, you know, I've been thinking about this lot and by a lot, I mean for the last 10 years or so, and just this idea of being open and honest and telling the truth about how we feel. That's right.
I've seen and I'm I like getting renewed hope more and more than an interpersonal relationships, especially romantic relationships with even family relationships and friends, that we desire the other person to tell us the truth about how they're actually feeling, and they often desire that we tell them the truth about how we're actually feeling and sometimes we can get stuck in this while I want somebody to tell me the truth, waiting for the other person to speak. But so in interpersonal context, I think that happens and that we have that expectation. I wonder if we still have that same expectation as we move to other types of contexts. So in the workplace or in politics or on television or in broadcast any type of broadcast medium, do we have the same desire? Maybe we do in terms of expecting or hoping that the other person would be open and honest with us. We watch a show like Stephen Colbert, I hope he will tell the truth about what's going on with him. I noticed Justin Bieber posted something recently about the truth about what's happening with him and some of the physical ailment that he has and why he's canceled some of his tour dates?
I wonder if that applies to the workplace and the workplace. Do we hope that people are really open and honest with us or do we kind of want them to maintain their distance and stay somewhat guarded. I read something today about video game companies that are starting to post their salaries transparently so that everyone knows within the company how much each person or each position pays each person makes for each position pays. I thought that was really interesting. So I'm just kind of curious about this idea of culture telling us don't maybe is that culture maybe we assume that's what culture wants? Maybe it's me thinking okay for example, I haven't posted a lot on linkedin because I think of linkedin and I go, oh God, I have to be so perfect to post on linkedin. I need to have the business plan all wrapped up and I need to have my my CV resume in order and then deliver it to people. So they know exactly what I provide and who I am, blah blah blah blah. But maybe people aren't looking for that. Maybe we put that pressure on ourselves. I put that pressure on myself to try to look perfect. Whereas the other person is begging for me to be more open and show the imperfections.
I mean isn't this what we, I imagine many of us crave out of a politician is one who is open and honest. Tell me what you're actually thinking and feeling, not what you think. I think or not. Don't tell me. Oh, all americans want this. No, I want to hear what you believe.
So maybe there is a demand out there. Maybe it's that other people do want us to open up, but we don't want to open up because we think maybe they don't want us to open up. You know, we think that this person doesn't want me to say how I'm feeling. So I'm not gonna say it. Where's the person maybe have been yearning for us to say how we're feeling? I don't know, kind of reflecting on just some personal stuff that's going on and some of the struggles I've had in terms of wanting to open up and share professionally. As I open up personally, I go, okay, I feel a lot better. I feel a lot more confident doing this, but trying to take those skills and transition them into the work world or into the broadcast medium. I I feel a lot more trepidation and uncertainty about whether whether others want that, but at the end of the day, oh, hit the chime. I thought I was going to finish before the clock came in, but we'll let it do its course. Music.
Anyways, I should probably pay a lot more attention to that time. But just to end to say that, that we, perhaps I am the one putting the pressure on myself to show perfection, whereas others aren't necessarily craving that perfection and are actually yearning more for the imperfection and the open and honest truth about what's going on professionally personally, politically. Everything. So maybe that inspires you. I'm curious to hear your thoughts if you want to send me a message jump onto the platform that I'm building called Jim and Friends and we can chat there. Thanks.
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