Authenticity
What does it mean for something to be 'authentic'?
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Authenticity
‘Do not try to be the best. Be the only.’ It helps me believe in a positive-sum world —where my success does not hinge on the failure of others, and I am not in a rat-race.” — Nishant Jain
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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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Donald Glover in an interview with The New Yorker: “Authenticity is the journey of figuring out who you are through what you make.”
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Just before he stepped down as CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos wrote his final shareholder letter. He closed it out with a section he titled, “Differentiation is Survival and the Universe Wants You to be Typical.”
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