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Communicating what you really mean (with Misha Glouberman)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
The Awkwardness Avoidance Characteristic of Transparency
In both of those examples, I feel like an awkwardness avoidance characteristic might be operating where it's just like there's something uncomfortable about being transparent. We don't like to do something that's going to be painful now that will have better payoff later. The number of times in workplaces where someone says, hey, can you go do that thing? And what the person is thinking is like, no, that's impossible. What they say is yes, because yes feels good. It doesn't feel good as absolutely everything that happens afterwards.
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