There's a lot of talk these days about "boundaries". Every other social media post tells you that "boundaries are important." Half of the rest of the social media posts mock the entire idea of boundaries, and insist it's all part of the "woke agenda". But what are boundaries, and how do you hold them whilst still enabling people, including the strangers who may become your collaborators, your team members, or your customers/clients, to approach you freely? What are boundaries? A boundary, in human psycho-social terms, is a requirement you have around the way people behave and interact with you. It needs to be expressed, because expected people to "just know" what your boundaries are is unreasonable; people aren't psychic. Many open-access spaces include signage about zero tolerance of verbally or physically abusive behaviour towards their staff - that's a poorly stated boundary, because everyone's idea, particularly of v...
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