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From my color letter email: "I'm extremely creative and have privately studied a number of unrelated and interesting subject-matter like design, studio art, an
by mikegreenberg 15y ago
From my color letter email:
"I'm extremely creative and have privately studied a number of unrelated and interesting subject-matter like design, studio art, analog film development, piano, robotics, life-process/self improvement, martial arts, yoga, mountain biking, and racquetball. As a result of mentally wondering around over the past 29 years, I've since endeavored to become a modern renaissance man and want to carpe diem with the best of them."
From my blog: http://nobulb.com/personas/ http://nobulb.com/personas/
I put a LARGE amount of my life online. I realize this goes against what a lot of people feel is appropriate, but my line of work (web engineer...but that title lacks) requires a strong online presence. It just so happens that I'm working on a project which will help online identity management and could solve a lot of the problems that people have with exposing themselves online (and not THAT sort of exposing either).
As far as out-of-the-norm mannerisms and and personality traits:
I'm rather blunt. Many people are caught off guard, but I make this work for me because I am constructive and not condescending. I pay a LOT of attention to how people interact and take a lot of effort to use my actions to support my statements and not give off the impression of disinterest and holier-than-thou. Most of the time this works well, but it has gotten me into trouble on occasion. This is a risk I'm very willing to accept given the many opportunities it has yielded.
I'm very much of the mentality to "Ask for forgiveness, not for permission." This goes hand-in-hand with the previous point and allows me to do the things I wouldn't normally and "Poke the Box" (as Seth Godin would put it).
I wasn't always this way and made an effort to be more extroverted. I'm not suggesting that you try to be something you're not. I'm suggesting that you mold yourself into the person you aspire to be. So these traits are tools that I've developed after watching how successful people interact and execute.