A enjoyable reality about myself is that I don’t like sharing enjoyable information about myself 😆

I noticed this and laughed as a result of, truthfully, identical.

There are individuals who hear “team building icebreaker” and suppose, nice, this can be enjoyable. An opportunity to attach, loosen up, get everybody speaking.

And for some individuals, that’s precisely what it’s.

It’s acquainted. It’s protected. It offers everybody a construction. It creates a predictable method into the room.

But for others, it looks like being requested to carry out a model of your self on command.

“Share a fun fact.”

“Tell us something interesting.”

“Let’s go around the room.”

Suddenly your mind leaves your physique and also you neglect each reality about your personal existence.

I’m undoubtedly wired extra that method.

Not as a result of I don’t like individuals. Not as a result of I don’t worth connection. I do.

But compelled connection typically misses the half the place actual connection really occurs.

It occurs within the small particulars. The facet dialog. The sudden remark. The factor somebody says once they cease attempting to be fascinating and simply turn into sincere for a second.

That might be why I ended up in storytelling.

I’m drawn to the nuance. The factor underneath the factor. The half that doesn’t all the time present up when everyone seems to be requested to current themselves neatly in a circle.

Some individuals thrive in construction.

Some individuals come alive when the construction disappears.

Neither is flawed.

But it’s price remembering that the factor designed to make everybody really feel included can typically be the precise factor that makes somebody really feel like they need to disappear.