I struggled to write a title for this and I'm not so sure if it's so much thinking aloud as it is a question, but recently I wrote a piece that I feel like was equal part striking a nerve with readers and also just rhetorically challenging the status quo for other readers in a way that was supported.
But now I'm struggling on whether the piece just hit a little too close to home for some people and was exactly what they needed to hear, even if they don't want to or are in denial.
Or on the other hand, I'm wondering if within the controversy of how some people are perceiving the message is a lack of me getting the message across the way I was hoping it would be interpreted.
Basically, the jist of the article is this.
What if the problem isn't finding the right coworkers, what if the problem is that we aren't being the right coworker?
It is essentially a piece on how some people jump from job to job to job always looking for a sense of fulfillment but always finding themselves struggling with coworkers and management no matter where they go. So the question is essentially, at what point do we stop pointing the finger at everyone around us being the problem and start reflecting that maybe it might be ourselves.
Except, it appears some people are reading this as though it is a call to action to conform to something we are not and bend over backwards for employers and coworkers at the cost of our self identity. On one hand, that isn't it at all and on the other hand, maybe if you're a really shitty person to work with than yeah, maybe you have some toxic personality traits that you should work on if every place you go brings you trouble.
I don't know, I'm just struggling as a writer on whether striking a nerve with people is going to be beneficial, or if it is a function of my writing just not coming across in a motivational way and instead as demeaning - because I don't want that.
And then I start to consider rewriting it to better explain that its a rhetorically motivational piece and I come to this idea that maybe thats what it was all along, its just some readers dont want to hear it because it requires them to face their flaws...and maybe thats exactly where I need to be writing at.
Submitted September 27, 2019 at 02:21PM by BroScrubYourBalls https://www.reddit.com/r/Blogging/comments/da8wl9/keep_it_controversial_or_realign_the_content/?utm_source=ifttt
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