{"id":45874,"date":"2019-07-25T07:59:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T07:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roblilwall.com\/en-my\/?p=45874"},"modified":"2025-04-29T15:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T07:16:10","slug":"are-you-vulnerable-with-your-audience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roblilwall.com\/en-my\/blog\/2019\/07\/25\/are-you-vulnerable-with-your-audience\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you vulnerable with your audience?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was very shocked (and liberated) when I started to understand this &#8211; as stated by the great Carl Rogers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I have most invariably found that the very feeling which has seemed to me most private, most personal &amp;, hence, most incomprehensible by others, has turned out to be an expression for which there is a resonance in many people. 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