DailyJim: Easy to open up when others want to open up, less so when they don’t

Hello everyone welcome to another daily gym this is the episode for monday june 14 15 16th, let's see oh 17th monday june 17 2024 today i want to talk about how it is easy to open up when others want to open up and not so easy when others don't um Um, I've been on two different projects out here in Europe in the last couple weeks, and.

These environments of many people living together in the same house for about 10 days at a time can instill a sense of closeness. It's also got people from different countries coming together. Overall, there's a sense of people wanting to be curious, ask questions, learn from each other, and in general i'd say open up just be in a much more open environment and i find that i thrive pretty well in these environments and then i think about how hard it can be for some of us myself included to leave an environment like this and go back to our quote-unquote normal life to the real life, as some people would say. And I think one of the hardest parts is going back to an environment where people aren't necessarily, where people don't have as much in common. And also people may not be so excited to learn, to open up, to explore, to be curious.

And I've often asked myself what to do in such scenarios. And I don't know if I have the answer, but But I just thought so many of us have probably been in similar situations where maybe we go off to a conference of our peers or we go to see old friends of ours or we go to, where else could we go? We could go to a concert where people have a lot in common or we can go to a festival or we could go to university or college and then come back home. Oh, we can go to a new culture and we're meeting people from different parts of the world that are traveling.

Frankly, I would say probably any type of cultural change, where we go somewhere, we open up because we're exploring and learning new things, and then we come back to what would be the old environment or the previous environment, where things feel the same, but we feel different. If that makes any sense, kind of the reverse culture shock aspect. And I think that's a part of it. But I think another part of it is just, yeah, what to do when somebody previously wanted to open up, but no longer wants to open up as much. No longer wants to be as curious. No longer wants to learn as much. No longer wants to explore as much. No longer wants to kind of distance or close off in some ways. And how it can be so much easier when both people are encouraging each other to open up, to ask questions, to share, to express, to reflect, to adventure out, to take risks. And it can be hard to navigate when one person wants to do that and the other person wants to do almost the opposite. It's almost like two people pulling in different directions. so just reflecting on that more as i as this project ends pretty soon and thinking about not only the end of the project and me interacting with people who are no longer on the project but also just thinking about this podcast in general and how broadcasting is shooting out to a lot of people that are at different levels of desire when it comes to opening up or connecting with emotions and yeah just thinking about you know how to interact with people in my life, with regards to these things as well so anyways uh just a short reflection i think somewhat short and i'm going to end for tonight and talk to you all tomorrow take care bye.