In fairness to her she has written An Entire Book on the premise that "sometimes you take a risk and it doesn't work out for you and you end up flat on your face in the mud & the dust & the blood and... how do you get back up from there?" rather than glossing over it entirely, but that's very much in the context of "leaders!!! entrepreneurs!!!" so it's kind of a turn-off from that angle.
My definition is also coming from the place of -- okay, so, small fucked-up autistic Alex, right, is in the process of going I'M TOO GAY FOR THIS SHIT and flouncing out of the Church and therefore trying to work out a whole new system of ethics from the ground up while honestly probably quite traumatised and passively suicidal--
-- & where I ended up was "I won't deliberately use information people have entrusted me with specifically to hurt them". That was it. That was my line in the sand. (You will note that hurting people other ways was still on the table, along with recognition of... well, at least some of... my own limitations.)
I... have managed to broaden the scope a bit since then, what with becoming more stable and secure and generally closer to being within hailing distance of functional if not sane, but that's where I (as in the-me-that-feels-at-all-continuous) started from, and I Think It Shows.
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Date: 2020-01-09 10:59 pm (UTC)My definition is also coming from the place of -- okay, so, small fucked-up autistic Alex, right, is in the process of going I'M TOO GAY FOR THIS SHIT and flouncing out of the Church and therefore trying to work out a whole new system of ethics from the ground up while honestly probably quite traumatised and passively suicidal--
-- & where I ended up was "I won't deliberately use information people have entrusted me with specifically to hurt them". That was it. That was my line in the sand. (You will note that hurting people other ways was still on the table, along with recognition of... well, at least some of... my own limitations.)
I... have managed to broaden the scope a bit since then, what with becoming more stable and secure and generally closer to being within hailing distance of functional if not sane, but that's where I (as in the-me-that-feels-at-all-continuous) started from, and I Think It Shows.