Quote Originally Posted by TSANHO View Post
It’s a funny thing, the internet and how it makes us behave, I’m sure it’d have fascinated Carl Jung and those of his ilk. Jim O’Briens comments post match regarding online abuse/criticism made me think about my own recent and past borderline abuse of IB, and various other posters that I’ve crossed online.

It does make you think, how often would we say things in person that’d we’d flippantly post online towards other people, myself included...it doesn’t paint a pretty picture of what is going on behind the scenes of ones own consciousness, the Shadow Self, as it sometimes known as. Perhaps reading and being more aware of what we have posted would be a useful tool in facing our own problems.

This should probably have been an OT, but It does have some relevance to Jim O’Brien....I hope the players and staff don’t read this board, but I’m going to try and be more aware of what I’m compelled to write, and why, from now on.
Yeah, it would be good if the worst of it was reined in.
But I think not caring about this (or better still, not even reading) should be part and parcel of a sports' professional's psychological make up, especially these days.

I got this line from watching an interview with ex Houston Rockets coach Rudy Tomjanovich - 'what other people think of you is none of your goddamned business'....the next step after realising this is the liberating one