So to summarize your comment: You use personal examples because you have a lot of data on yourself, and you think you are an excellent example because you seem to be performing very well in some areas.
What are those areas? The examples in this post seem unrelated to any particular strengths of yours.
...you think you are an excellent example because you seem to be performing very well in some areas.
In this post I just used personal examples because I had them, and also because I’ve probably done this somewhat more than average.
The good performance I’m seeing is my larger reason for posting at all. This post is meant both to point out a generally useful phenomenon and to prepare for other material. The other material contains the primary causes of the benefits I’m seeing.
As for what those benefits are, they’re listed in more detail here.
Why do you think you need to prepare your readers for other material? What are you preparing them for? (Or are you preparing yourself?)
Also, could you give me a shorter summary of those benefits? The material you linked me to had four paragraphs of talking about how you interact with other people in a very general way before even attempting your point.
One of the most helpful tools I can think of for the upcoming strategy is to put one’s self into other people’s minds and experiences, and the posts on that strategy are partly built for doing that. I wanted to explain to people why that extra material is there (and that it’s not just a case of needless and unreflected-upon over-elaboration), and also to give an idea of how that material might best be used.
The material you linked me to had four paragraphs of talking about how you interact with other people in a very general way before even attempting your point.
Those paragraphs primarily exist to give a sense of my personality and a suggestion for the best way to consider the benefits. It might be nice if we considered ideas separate from their speaker, but it’s often very relevant information. This comment talks more about this.
For a shorter summary of the benefits, you could check out this post, 4th paragraph, beginning with “If you haven’t read the first two posts”.
So to summarize your comment: You use personal examples because you have a lot of data on yourself, and you think you are an excellent example because you seem to be performing very well in some areas.
What are those areas? The examples in this post seem unrelated to any particular strengths of yours.
In this post I just used personal examples because I had them, and also because I’ve probably done this somewhat more than average.
The good performance I’m seeing is my larger reason for posting at all. This post is meant both to point out a generally useful phenomenon and to prepare for other material. The other material contains the primary causes of the benefits I’m seeing.
As for what those benefits are, they’re listed in more detail here.
Why do you think you need to prepare your readers for other material? What are you preparing them for? (Or are you preparing yourself?)
Also, could you give me a shorter summary of those benefits? The material you linked me to had four paragraphs of talking about how you interact with other people in a very general way before even attempting your point.
One of the most helpful tools I can think of for the upcoming strategy is to put one’s self into other people’s minds and experiences, and the posts on that strategy are partly built for doing that. I wanted to explain to people why that extra material is there (and that it’s not just a case of needless and unreflected-upon over-elaboration), and also to give an idea of how that material might best be used.
Those paragraphs primarily exist to give a sense of my personality and a suggestion for the best way to consider the benefits. It might be nice if we considered ideas separate from their speaker, but it’s often very relevant information. This comment talks more about this.
For a shorter summary of the benefits, you could check out this post, 4th paragraph, beginning with “If you haven’t read the first two posts”.