Adam Grant on Substack
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Adam Grant on Substack
When I present myself on social media, I try to be as honest as possible about who I am. The idea is to let people see the whole picture and not overlook the aspects of me that might be ugly, messy or broken. But at the same time I still put on this mask of an individual who is so in tune with himself that he can easily pick apart and articulate wh... See more
Masking vulnerability online | Are.na
To communicate an identity requires some degree of self-delusion. A performer, in order to be convincing, must conceal “the discreditable facts that he has had to learn about the performance; in everyday terms, there will be things he knows, or has known, that he will not be able to tell himself.”
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Sometimes people think if they just prayed enough, or went to enough masses, then their grandiosity would stop being seductive. Or if they became a cardinal, or a bishop, or a mother superior, it would not be seductive anymore. The truth, of course, is just the opposite, because the more successful you get, the more seductive grandiosity gets. The
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