I remember when I was young, I was obsessed with sesame street. I had my mother make me a little sesame street mask, and I would wear it as a mask throughout the day to hide my face for when I got in trouble. Well, one day, my mother made me go to the store and buy them. I bought three, and now I wear them whenever I go to the store.
I don’t know if it was the mask or the fact that I had a little black cat-mask, but I have come to rely on a little sesame street-mask as a sort of self-protection over the last five years. If something’s on the outside of your skin, you know that you can hide from it, because you’re not really in it.
The only people I’ve ever seen wear a mask were my mum and my sister when they went out to make up their minds about the price of my birthday present.
That’s probably because they were wearing the mask to protect themselves from each other. But masking out your true inner self is a good way to avoid being judged.
Sure, it might be easier to hide out in a hotel room with a mask on, but it’s a very real danger. When we’re trying to change our minds about something, it’s very easy to get caught up in a debate about the right thing to do.
In our last video, we discussed the importance of self-awareness in the workplace. By this we mean understanding yourself and others (and being able to evaluate and respond to the feelings of others), but also self-awareness of how you communicate. We all know when we are being self-centered, but being aware of how we are communicating can help us recognize how that is affecting our team.
The first thing that we look for in an employee is communication skills. It seems like every time we come in to work, we see our colleague’s eyes glued to a screen, or they are just staring at the screen all day, and we wonder what they’re thinking.
There are times where we don’t know what to do, but we do know what to do. If we are being self-aware, we know how to do it. If we are being aware of how we are being aware of others’ feelings, we know how to react to them. For example, if we are in a relationship where we see each other’s face, we know we are actually in relationship with each other.
Not so long ago, I was in a relationship where I saw how people’s faces looked at me while they were talking to me, and I knew I was in a relationship with them. If I saw someone else’s face, I knew I wasn’t the only one in the relationship. If I saw someone’s face while I was eating breakfast, I knew I was eating breakfast with someone else.
We have similar reactions. In our recent story, we have been shown a few things. We are in the middle of a scene where we were both in our early 50s, and we were both in the middle of a scene where we were both on the same plane. We are also in the middle of some high-tech-scenes where we were both on a plane.
