{"id":3366,"date":"2021-04-29T01:52:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T06:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3366"},"modified":"2021-03-22T06:59:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T11:59:12","slug":"clarifying-the-message-do-we-want-to-do-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2021\/04\/clarifying-the-message-do-we-want-to-do-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarifying the Message (do we want to do that?)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>There is a risk to clarifying the message relative to an idea. We many learn that the idea is a bad one.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have an idea. I have a message. My message is fuzzy, not good. I want to clarify my message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Really? If my idea is a bad one, clarifying the message will reveal that it is bad. At that point, I would have to go back and work on the idea for a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rats. I had promised everyone a message about the idea and it is time to deliver and I am going to be late with everything and\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I hate being late. I hate withdrawing my idea when I promised others that I would present it to them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How did I get into so much trouble? I had not clarified the idea before telling others that I had a great idea and I was going to tell them about it. The act of telling others the great idea would teach me if the idea was great or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I need a group of folks who will listen to me as a practice, i.e., they won&#8217;t really care that much if my idea is bad. Where do I find such non-judgemental folks? I need to clarify that idea so I can find them. Sigh. Isn&#8217;t this where I began?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips There is a risk to clarifying the message relative to an idea. We many learn that the idea is a bad one. I have an idea. I have a message. My message is fuzzy, not good. I want to clarify my message. Really? If my idea is a bad one, clarifying the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,32,43],"tags":[225,154,165],"class_list":["post-3366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clarity","category-communication","category-ideas","tag-clarity","tag-communication","tag-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3367,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366\/revisions\/3367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}