{"id":6001,"date":"2022-09-20T15:11:22","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T22:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=6001"},"modified":"2022-09-20T15:11:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T22:11:22","slug":"read-the-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2022\/09\/read-the-room\/","title":{"rendered":"read the room"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As much as I would like to be perfect, I am far from it. I have my proclivities and my blind spots. Unfortunately, I\u2019m not always aware of which is which. I think I\u2019m getting better at seeing which is which. I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m blind to, until I have a throbbing pain slam into me.<br><br>I have a lot going on in my head. The running conversation spills easily into my writing\u2014my blog has been around for 20 years, and this weekly wonder newsletter for more than ten. I\u2019m not short on thoughts.<br><br>Thing is, I am so busy listening to myself, I\u2019m not so good at hearing what others might have to say. There is a saying \u201cRead the room.\u201d <br><br>Ah. The room and all the people in it have something for me. It seems I need to clear out a space in my head and give some attention to what is happening around me. <br><br>This doesn\u2019t always come easy. I love to talk with other people, but when my mind is full it\u2019s hard for me to set aside what I\u2019m thinking about and make room for what others need from me.<br><br>And they don\u2019t always even tell me. I have to sharpen up and look for signs. Are they tired? Are they excited? I have to be aware of what is happening in the minds and hearts of others.<br><br>With all the noise in my own head, I can easily overlook what\u2019s happening for other people. <br><br>I\u2019m getting ready for a job interview on Thursday. Wish me luck! I would love to be picked and I am flashing back to job interviews that have gone very poorly in the past. There was this one interview I finally got, and I was so nervous and desperate. I got on the call and tripped all over myself, barreling down on that poor hiring manager like a runaway freight train.<br><br>I hope I\u2019ve learned a couple things since.  <br><br>Like <br>Take a breath<br><br>It\u2019s not all about me. <br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As much as I would like to be perfect, I am far from it. I have my proclivities and my blind spots. Unfortunately, I\u2019m not always aware of which is which. I think I\u2019m getting better at seeing which is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2022\/09\/read-the-room\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6001"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6006,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6001\/revisions\/6006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}