The Human Behind the Profile

A little experiment, eh?

Take a minute to skim the LinkedIn profile of someone you admire. What stands out? How do you feel reading through it?

Social media is a curated, incomplete view into someone's life. We all know this, yet it’s inexhaustibly easy to forget. LinkedIn brims with meticulously crafted updates on professional journeys. The highs are highlighted, and the lows are typically framed as positives, sometimes absurdly so.

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There’s some value in bias towards good news, as we don’t need to read about everyone's internal struggles all the time. But the whitewashed successes we see online can make one’s own path to success seem disturbingly narrow.

Behind every LinkedIn profile, no matter how shiny, now matter how manicured, is a flawed human being that has experienced setbacks and disappointments.

Remember the human behind the profile.