Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

When someone is quite specific in what they convey, they often mean the opposite.

“I will inject some humor here,” often means that nothing funny will be said.

“I don’t care about the money,” often means that I really do care about the money coming my way.

“We are transparent here,” often means that of course there are things happening that we don’t tell everyone.

For some reason, we tend to overstate or overcompensate for something that is important to us. That’s just something we do. We are an odd lot.