Authenticity

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

I'd either drive people away or they'd come in closer to see what it was all about. There was no in between.

-Bob Dylan

“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

Brené Brown — Striving versus Self-Acceptance, Saving Marriages, and More (#409) - The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss

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andrea

When scientific progress destabilized religious authority and the lack of meaning found in a pure rational worldview revealed science’s limitations, movements like Theosophy offered a kind of third way, a path toward understanding the world between science and religion. Theosophy was in conversation with both realms, using tools like magical

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Keely Adler

A big breakthrough for me – life as a whole – came when I figured out that making solid progress on creative work, and enjoying the process rather than hating it, is in large part a matter of being willing to be who you actually are.

sari

To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

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rob hardy

I heard this quote from the writer Harold Brodkey who said, “I don’t understand privacy.” I’ve always understood privacy very well, but it’s like—what’s the point of taking your secrets to the grave, or even your banalities? We have this chance to let ourselves be known to other people, to fill out the web of humanity that we’ve been spreading for

alex

Someone who is secure is also consistent: they’re the same person in front of everyone because they’re comfortable being authentic. They don’t have to change masks between people because they don’t feel the need to impress others by pretending to be someone they’re not.

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