Authenticity
What does it mean for something to be 'authentic'?
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Authenticity
To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
Dylan O'Sullivan • Tweet
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.
“I think one of the marks of maturity […] - is the willingness to be seen exactly as I am.
As we grow more settled and mature, we become less hidden to others, more transparent to ourselves as well as to each other.
With this growing authenticity comes a deepening of intimacy with each... See more
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
Where we struggle to imagine a future beyond the contemporary shitshow, nihilism leads the retreat inwards; in art as in politics. “What good is a flourishing poetry market,” Watts asked, “If what we read in poetry books renders us more confused, less appreciative of nuance, less able to engage with ideas, more indignant about the things that annoy
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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
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.”
He prefaced his own thoughts with a quote from The Blind Watchmaker, “if living things [don’t] work actively to... See more
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