Authenticity

What does it mean for something to be 'authentic'?

The Internet Has Massively Broadened Career Possibilities

this year, and beyond, i will move with my own mutability as a gift and no longer search for performative one-dimensionality. being home has taught me this, as i have had to witness my own shapeshifting and reckon with the deep-rooted reasons for it. i remember one day hearing adrienne maree brown and bayo akomolafe ask each other, “so what if i’m... See more

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Natalie Audelo

Confessional art can be beautiful, and it can be terrible; either way, to love it only as a representation of what we already know is to deny it, and ourselves, a much richer complexity. Pop music is where fantasies are played out, turned into mansions and lived in, where five hundred people can tumble out of a clown car and every dream comes true.

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Keely Adler

Authentic contrarians vs consensus contrarians

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sari

Tourist trappings: why we all love a tacky souvenir fridge magnet

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Keely Adler

instead of asking: how can i be more like them? ask: how can i be more like me? how many versions of me do i occupy? where do they live? how do they grow? what will they bloom into? what rituals do they practice? how do they... See more

alex

why are you, someone with a story to tell, not expressing yourself courageously and authentically everywhere you go and attracting the exact people, conversations, and opportunities that are most aligned with your deepest and truest self?

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andrea

“I tell this to my students: It's not about copying me or my logic systems. It's about allowing yourself to be yourself.”

–Frank Ghery

Alara

What I want to say most is that I am not an improved or better version of myself than I was a year ago because that is no longer a goal — but I am a truer version, a closer-in version, a more expansive and open version, a less clinging-to-certainty version, and that, to me, counts for a lot more than seeking to endlessly upgrade myself.

aandrea

the goal is not to optimize yourself, it’s to get closer to yourself