Being vocal
I was at a LinkedIn event not long ago in San Francisco hosted by a group of LinkedIn student campus editors. The main takeaway of the night is to leverage the power of LinkedIn posts to advance your career. Some of the guest speakers were extremely passionate about recording their experiences as entrepreneurs, while others freely express their opinions on politics, school, and job interviews.
The common denominator for these young thought leaders is that they are vocal about what they’re genuinely passionate about, and not afraid to speak their inner thoughts.
I think expressing more can be a good exercise for everyone. In my experience, it formalizes the pure thoughts into rational sentences. Often times, different thoughts are seemingly coherent when constructed in the mind, but becomes illogical after writing them all down. No one wants to make important career or business decisions based on a shaky foundation.
Although writing can be a time consuming endeavor, it is often worth the time to summarize the lessons learned in writing. The major road blocks or problems in a job cannot be fixed by working even longer hours or being even more ruthlessly efficient in implementation, it’s about slowing down and reflecting deeply about what can be changed. It’s also about whether there is enough passion to lead a way out of the dark times. Writing and recording things that are interesting to the writer achieves both of these things. It doesn’t hinder passion, but rather promotes it and lead to better ideas. Since a writing involves many details about the subject, it helps to reveal any existing flaws in the process what weren’t recognized before. Finally, writing is about brining subconscious thoughts into the forefront to be analyzed in a rigorous way.
Similar to writing, other media such as videos and audio also achieves similar goals.
Just like the best way to learn a math problem is to explain the solution to someone else, being vocal about a life’s passion can be very rewarding for both the writer and the readers.
