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Imagine that a career is like a marathon—a long, grueling, and ultimately rewarding endeavor. Now imagine a marathon where both men and women arrive at the starting line equally fit and trained. The gun goes off. The men and women run side by side. The male marathoners are routinely cheered on: “Lookin’ strong! On your way!” But the female runners hear a different message. “You know you don’t have to do this!” the crowd shouts. Or “Good start—but you probably won’t want to finish.” The farther the marathoners run, the louder the cries grow for the men: “Keep going! You’ve got this!” But the women hear more and more doubts about their efforts. External voices, and often their own internal voice, repeatedly question their decision to keep running. The voices can even grow hostile. As the women struggle to endure the rigors of the race, spectators shout, “Why are you running when your children need you at home?”
5. Master Mark Manson’s hidden skill Mark wrote “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Flying F*ck.” This way of life has spread through culture faster than a bat virus. The polite way to frame what Mark figured out is to drop your self-consciousness. The technical term in live theatre is called public solitude. All you have to do when telling a story to a live audience is pretend you’re alone in your bedroom and the audience isn’t there.
Storytelling Is One of the Greatest Superpowers — You Can Quietly Learn It From This Expert | by Tim Denning | Jul, 2022 | the Writing Cooperative
Tim Denning
Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.
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