People always say that when it comes to business you should always separate that from your personal life. The simple reason is that by taking things personally you can constantly make bad emotional decisions as opposed to rational ones that help you to achieve your specific objective. Just today I was reading a story that someone posted where he literally wrote about a time he was abused in his life. This was eye raising story as it’s usually the opposite where it would be the man abusing the woman but this was the other way around.
He then made a point at the end that one reason he told this story was so that people understand better on why he makes certain business decisions the way he does. From what I saw a lot of people started to sympathize and understand better afterwards about him as an individual and the way he runs a business. That kind of asks the question too where is sharing your life nowadays actually a positive necessity in many ways in running a business?
To a certain extent I am inclined to say it may help more nowadays especially if you are a smaller business. There are so many more places that are simply automated where it kind of loses that human trust factor. What better way to do it then to show that there is a real person running that business who experience real struggles and all too.
Though there is a difference between that and just sharing negative stories of course. If you can find a way to do it in a constructive way though it can definitely help. It can help to inspire people who have been through the same as well.
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