Authenticity

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

Make stuff only you can make. Stuff that makes you sigh in resignation after waiting for someone else to make happen so you can enjoy it, and realizing that’s never going to happen so you have to get off the couch and do it yourself

Carmen • Tweet

sari

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?

via Daisy Alioto

make decisions using our own creative values, not “industry standards.” We design our work and worlds from our best intentions, not our worst fears.

Yancey Strickler • We're Already in Creative Groups, They're Just Not Yet Self-Aware

sari

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

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

— Albert Camus

Dylano | Essayful • Tweet

rob hardy

llili

Funeral inspo. But also life inspiration. Hold space for inconveniences. Show up raw. Give space to the ugly versions of you so they can live and die.

The original poem this piece is built on is called ‘Tract’ - written by William Carlos William (whose work was a muse for the film Paterson).

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