Monday 18 January 2010

Do you censor yourself too much?

I was amused to read about Adam Slavick-Lennard (aka Sleep Talkin Man - www.sleeptalkinman.blogspot.com) last week.

His wife, Karen, sick of being woken up by his endless sleep chatter decided to start blogging. It's become so popular that they're thinking about book deals and talking to several papers.

At first, I felt mortified for Adam, having his sleep talk publicised. But then it made me laugh.

From "Vampire penguins? Zombie guinea pigs? We're done for.... done for" to "Don't... Don't put the noodles and the dumplings together in the boat. They'll fight! The noodles are bullies. Poor dumplings."

Think about the times when you hold back, bite your tongue and otherwise stop yourself from communicating.

It may be that far from judging what you have to say, people respond to your honesty and openess.

No one's suggesting you switch your own inner censor off completely but ask yourself if there are times when you - and others - would benefit from you speaking out more...

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