Are social media just for saying, “Look what I’m doing! See what exciting place I’m visiting! Don’t forget about me!”?
Much of this is so very uninteresting. I just don’t care. But a simple shift and things start to attract my interest. Stop talking about yourself and talk about other people.
I’m a parent, so one of the things I love to do is to brag about my children. It’s easy because they’re intelligent, beautiful, and extremely talented. But I also have talented and intelligent friends and colleagues. Talking about the really interesting things that they’re doing is much more interesting to others than when I talk about myself.
I do think that praising other people, bragging about them, is useful. Bragging is typically thought of in negative terms, but I think it has its uses, in moderation. Talking about others takes the focus off of yourself. As long as you’re not overbearing or “name dropping”, others may find what you’re talking about interesting and useful when you remove yourself from the conversation.
In this age of tweets and blogging, talking about others, promoting them, bragging about them fits right in. And it’s a refreshing break from people talking and bragging about themselves.
Take a moment today and brag about someone else. It’s fun and it’s contagious. And it’s gratifying when you learn that someone else is bragging about you
Here’s my bragging session today: check out this recording of a song my daughter Kathleen composed and performed: In The Mingo.
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