I will admit it. There's a certain sense of unavoidable shame that comes with learning, particularly the kind of open day-to-day learning that a blog can convey. Blogs can be brutally personal, which explains no doubt why some people experience blogger burnout. It's taxing to the ego to make a booboo. We all want to be accepted in the beehive, not shunned as the town heretic. Communication, especially in our day and age is a double-edged sword that is both necessary to explore new answers and seek them out from others, and yet a potential source of embarassment if it should so happen that there's even a chance that you're horribly wrong. There's no such thing as a perfect learner that never makes mistakes. Errors are the very soul of learning. So when you're like me that puts himself out there for the world to see weekly, I too find it hard not to feel a sense of shame when I have to prove myself wrong because of that blasted thing called conscience. And yet, I would be more embarassed as a human being to pretend that I don't make mistakes.
Friday, December 28, 2007
Etruscan view on blogging
An alternate view to the Basque proverb can be found here.
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It has widely been accepted that to err is only human.But yes it hurts when feel that what we projected was proved wrong.But should we fear that you mat err?
What a blogger communicate may in one or other way may provoke new thinking, new analysis or new results in some corner of the world.
What a blogger communicate may in one or other way may provoke new thinking, new analysis or new results in some corner of the world.
I don't think that goes well with provoking new thinking in ourselves by self-correction, so presented in this post. But yes, that can be another view on blogging!
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