12. Image, Perception and Assumptions
The need to be understood versus privacy
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In the beginning, Phyllis Furumoto's neediness to be understood led to a misconceived effort for transparency. During confrontative and controversial self-assessment workshops a self-created but entirely distorted image became visible.
my public self was really, really big and my private self was very, very small. Eventually I realized that … I needed to change that.
Misconceptions start to disappear, projections and rumors are replaced with people’s personal experience of Phyllis Furumoto in all her diversity and with her rough edges, too.