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Our love of authenticity rises as all the world became a stage
- Is authenticity the goal or itself a performance?
from Messy desks and the myth of the perfect workspace
Agalia Tan added
- This is the ultimate trapdoor in the hall of fame; to become a prisoner of one's own persona. The desire for recognition in an increasingly atomized world lures us to be who strangers wish us to be. And with personal development so arduous and lonely, there is ease and comfort in crowdsourcing your identity. But amid such temptations, it's worth re... See more
from The Perils of Audience Capture by Gurwinder
- And so the more authentic you are to who you are, and what you love to do, the less competition you’re gonna have. So, you can escape competition through authenticity when you realize that no one can compete with you on being you. And normally that would have been useless advice pre-internet. Post-internet you can turn that into a career.
from The Internet Has Massively Broadened Career Possibilities by Naval Ravikant