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The Dangerous Path of Second Guessing Your Truth
Dishonesty with your writing, and yourself, can lead to terrible decisions.
I recently published an article that explained my decision to, for all intents and purposes, pull one of my previous articles from Medium.
There were many reasons to pull this article, and I won’t go into them here.
Rather, this story is about how I started editing myself, hoping to “strike the right tone” with my audience.
At the end of the first draft of the story explaining my decision to pull a horrible piece of writing I published, I gave credit to many of the Medium members who left carefully crafted, well thought out responses and thanked them for taking the time to write their truth.
What I did not include was the time and effort that my wife also gave in helping me figure out if/when to pull the aforementioned article and how to explain not only my decision, but also the misguided thinking that led me to write it in the first place.
We had an hour+ conversation that night, and I would not have been able flesh out the ideas in my head to any level of completeness that I was able to achieve had it not been for her insight.
