The courage to talk

Recently, an esteemed colleague was thanking me for “courageous openness” with a previous email by me.

I have been very happy about this feedback. But I was also asking myself: is it really courageous to address important issues by mail … if there also had been opportunities to speak?

Honestly spoken, talking would have been courageous, face to face, eye in eye, vouching for my words.
Writing email is less.

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