{"id":3544,"date":"2008-07-24T21:04:18","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T05:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3544"},"modified":"2008-07-24T21:04:18","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T05:04:18","slug":"compartmentalizing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3544","title":{"rendered":"Compartmentalizing"},"content":{"rendered":"

My Moral Leader emails:<\/p>\n

Re: that video you did a while ago as you rambled around one night, wondering what to do with your life–why not do a few things that interest you as far as blogging, etc. go and see what works? I don’t mean setting up blogs about condos in Vegas or whatever, but, as I’ve suggested before, an author-interview blog, a Jewish blog, etc. and see what works. It would allow you to be multifaceted but with space to present each side of you more completely, as opposed to jumbling everything together in one blog.<\/p>\n

This might help you in a few ways–as I’ve said before, you can monetize each separately and attract different audiences. And, it’ll allow you to have your cake and eat it too–you’ll have a serious side (or sides) and you can still have your more personal blog(s) with Air Supply and what not etc.<\/p>\n

Right now, if you want people to take you seriously, it’s harder to do so with your current blog because you mix everything in over there. Separated, you could show people your serious side(s), e.g. interviewing authors, etc., and people would have something to hold on to if\/when they saw your more personal stuff. You’d be able to create a context for them to see it as the goofier "performance art" side of someone more serious. Kind of like the way actors can be known for doing serious work and also for having tawdry affairs, etc.. Despite the latter, the former gives people a context to still take them seriously. Their serious achievements drive out the tabloid fodder in people’s perception of them. However, if they mixed everything together–showing up late on the set because they are off having tawdry affairs, say–then it would be hard for them to succeed and people would not take them seriously.<\/p>\n

To put it another way, compartmentalizing your output would allow you to wear different masks, to take on different roles. As a Trickster-type, you may find that useful.<\/p>\n

(For reference: http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/<\/wbr>Trickster<\/a> — interesting to see that Coyote is viewed, among other things, as a monster-slayer…remind you of anyone? Note, btw, that while it’s not mentioned there, Tricksters not only manage to confound others–they run the risk of confounding themselves too, as no doubt you’ve discovered…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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