Being open and sharing your work - #OpenUpOctober

   It’s a Thursday morning. I woke up at 7am in Leuven, about 7000kms away from home, and rushed to the auditorium. It’s the first day of Heart of Clojure. I’m nervous, tired, and exhilarated all at the same time. My heart is racing.

After finishing up my duties as an Orga member, I finally sit down to watch the Opening Keynote by Lu Wilson @todepond, I’m really excited to hear what they say as I am about to give a talk on a similar tangent in a few hours.

The talk really touched me, and pumped me up. Don’t procrastinate and watch it RIGHT NOW GO GO GO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJzV0CX0q8o&feature=youtu.be

So when I gave my talk just a few hours later, I decided to add an extra slide at the end:

…and I failed!

It’s been more than two weeks, and every single day I’ve wanted to open up but I couldn’t. 10,000 things pop into my head before I try to share my work.

• Am I good enough?
• Will people judge me?
• Will people finally realise that I am a con-artist and I don’t really know anything I’m doing?
• Does anyone care of the work I do?
• Will it help someone? or even worse, hurt someone?

and yet, there is some inner force and energy which wants me to share openly because I think about it every single day.

Now that the video came out I went ahead and watched it again. It gave me enough activation energy to write this post. So no more bottling up, I start my 30 days of openness today!

LETS GOOOOO 🚀