#Blaugust2023 Wrestling With Our Better Selves

We all have our passions. I started this Micro.blog to talk about the my intersection between games and project management. However, in the interest of Blaugust, I thought I’d expand subject matter just a bit further to briefly talk about another thing I enjoy: wrestling.

In particular, I love AEW (All Elite Wrestling) and have for several years. This includes posters, shirts, action figures, attending shows, and watching every pay-per-view!

Wrestling is about being larger than life. The best advice most wrestlers get is to take their own personality and turn it up to 11 to create their wrestling persona. I think the same can be true of us shyer, quieter folk when it comes to interacting with others in a professional setting. For example, I am naturally curious but rarely so much that I overcome being softspoken in group situations. At work though, I have learned to “play the part” of a version of me that is 10x as curious (and thus willing to ask important people important questions at important times).

This isn’t advice to do a Macho Man impersonation at your next standup, but maybe it also is?