What the Heck Is beer bourbon & bbq festival?
This is the first time I have attended a beer festival. My first time attending a beer festival was quite a while ago when I was living in the great state of Missouri. To say I was impressed with the quality of the event is an understatement. As a matter of fact, I was even more impressed with how much fun it was! In this post I will cover the three levels of self-awareness that I think are necessary when attending a festival.
So whether you’re a festival goer or not, we all have a sense of self-awareness. In fact, a lot of us are self-aware. We use the knowledge we have gained from years of practice to help us make sense of the world around us. However, like many other important qualities, self-awareness is often a bit of an illusion. We can easily fall into the trap of believing that we have mastered the art of being self-aware.
On the other hand, as I’ve mentioned before, I think those who are self-aware are usually too self-aware. They are too aware of what they already know, and too confident in their understanding of how the world works. The only way to be truly self-aware is to be like the beer, bourbon & bbq festival guy who can’t believe that he really is self-aware.
When a lot of people think of self-awareness they usually assume that it is the last thing that would apply to them.
You can be self-aware and still be in the world. As a result, being self-aware is something that most people would want to do, but don’t do. That’s a shame because it means that you’re a bit of an asshole. Being a self-aware asshole doesn’t have to be a bad thing, but it does have to be something that people would generally like to avoid.
Being a self-aware asshole is not something that most people are really going to want to do. But it can be a big problem, and is something that just about everyone experiences. So we decided to do a little experiment. We set up a fake world in our own house (the house in which we live). We gave it a name, made it in our own kitchen. We gave it a lot of attention. And finally, we gave it a lot of self-awareness.
We went out one night to get a drink. We went to the park, and then to our house. We got a drink. We sat at our kitchen table. We put a shirt on. We went to bed.
There we were. That night, we had our first real party ever. And as we sat at our kitchen table, we realized we could have the same kind of party even if we were in some other house. It was the same thing that happens when we are out and about in public. We are talking, but not really listening. We are not really saying what we were thinking or saying what we were thinking just like we are not really listening to the people around us.
There is a great quote, “You don’t know what you’re talking about, you just know how to write it.” That is how people talk in front of crowds. There is something about the fact that they talk to us that makes them seem more alive than just a random group of people. And that is why we are so great at putting people into our stories.
We are not really saying what we were thinking. We are really saying what we were thinking about the things we were thinking about. What we were thinking about was the people around us. We are really saying what we were thinking in general about the things that we were thinking about.