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no, it doesn’t make any sense to me either. but bear with me.
i’ve had a year of feeling..meh. nothing specific, and i couldn’t figure out what was going on. i wasn’t in love with my job anymore, and that was a bit of a problem. carly said that maybe i wasn’t interested in pr anymore. i disagreed at the time, because it was WHO I WAS. of COURSE i’m still interested! of COURSE i still want to be in PR.
and yet, something still didn’t sit right.
i moved into a new office recently, and it’s a much more open, creative space for me. On Monday, when I was feeling particularly miserable and like life sucked ass (as tends to happen with depression…sometimes, it rears up and smacks you in the face), Lisa and I went for drinks at Chill Winston and talked. and talked and talked and talked.
Somehow, and I can’t remember how at the moment, we got onto the topic of my life. and what was bothering me at the time (and that’s probably how we got on the topic of my life), and Lisa started to explain the concept of the Salonnieres to me.
She’s reading this book called the English Civil War: Papists, Gentlewomen, Soldiers, and Whitchfinders in the Birth of Modern Britain. It discusses these women, who were, essentially, the connectors. The women who had a large network, brought people together and connected the dots for each other.
Lucy Hay is the one that Lisa is particularly referencing me to. The book describes her as:
Lucy Hay was England’s salonniere, a beautiful woman who enjoyed politics, intrigue, plots but also intellectual games, poetry, love affairs, (intellectual and probably occasionally physical, fashion, clothes and admiration.
After talking about it for a while, I realized Lisa was right. I *am* that connector, and I am the one who gets other people excited about things and… well, makes those connections.
We talked about my desire to write a book, and the book that I have planned, and am starting on, and how i need to find a way to look bigger picture than where I am right now.
We decided that what really needs to happen is that I need to do enough PR to support myself and then concentrate on the other things, like writing and my book and looking at the … well, bigger things.
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There is a service on the Web which, when I partook of it, proved to me that I had poor connecting skills, or more to the point, that was not a strength, and to concentrate my energies elsewhere — which means by connecting you to them, I’m running counter to that recommendation. What it is is a book and a Web site in combination: “Strengths Finder 2.0″ by Tom Rath. You are asked about 100 questions about your likes and dislikes, comforts and discomforts. The result is six words, some adjectives, some nouns, that describe your strengths. The book tells you of the value of foregoing things you’re just not as good at. You’d probably be a connector, and indeed, “connector” was one of the strength words. If you have a couple of bucks and about an hour, you might give it a spin.
Comment by Rick Wolff 04.16.08 @ 4:49 pm