Penelope Trunk (she’s going to be speaking at ERE’s Spring Expo in San Diego – DO NOT miss her!) wrote an astonishing piece Sunday on her blog – it was called “How to be more interesting to other people”
I know many people are interested in this concept.

In it, she says, “The interesting part of writing is not the part of the piece where you know exactly where it’s going. The interesting part is when you get to an unplanned moment in a paragraph and you surprise yourself by what you write next. It’s the moment of uncertainty, when you have to look inside yourself to keep going, and pull out something you didn’t know you had before…Most people are scared to get there. That’s why most people do not appear to be as interesting as they really are.”

I thought this concept might be helpful for those of you thinking that this advice to “get a group, get a blog, get a website” in the string of same name over on ERE was just too daunting in its command. Alan Alda said, “You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition, what you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.” I think Penelope is keying into a universal concept that we all can learn from – that when we embrace our frailties we become sweeter (Helen Keller). We become human – we become believable. And when we’re believable we possess the power to effect change in the world.
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