work & adhd
The performative mode fosters a profound isolation and sense of insecurity.
When your authenticity is an act, something’s gone wrong | Psyche Ideas
Useful personal traits are cultivated in interaction with the appropriation of unusual or unusually combined objects, experiences, styles and identities – a rare breed of dog, special cooking techniques, the obscure knowledge of sneaker brands, an offbeat musical style, a novel sexual orientation, and so on. Together, they’re put to work as the bas... See more
When your authenticity is an act, something’s gone wrong | Psyche Ideas
Performative authenticity is tied to economic success and social prestige, which means – and this is a further paradoxical feature – that your specialness and self-realisation have to be performed. In order for people to distinguish themselves, they must seek attention and visibility, and positively affect others with their self-representations, pe... See more
When your authenticity is an act, something’s gone wrong | Psyche Ideas
Third, it would require a movement away from efficiency and productivity as primary indicators of social wellbeing.
Alec Stubbs • The Achievement Society Is Burning Us Out, We Need More Play
But we should also be careful not to fall into the self-help trap. Any injunction to ‘find your inner child’ or to ‘seek out your play personality’ without structural change risks being a toothless act. It’s not just an act of personal rebellion but a social imperative.
Alec Stubbs • The Achievement Society Is Burning Us Out, We Need More Play
n his book The Society of Singularities (2017), the German social theorist Andreas Reckwitz argues that a larger ‘authenticity revolution’ has swept the world during the past 40 years. The register of values has shifted, he shows, away from anything standardised and regular and toward objects, images, services and events that are regarded as being ... See more
When your authenticity is an act, something’s gone wrong | Psyche Ideas
In der Arbeitswelt war ich dann am sichersten, als ich es geschafft habe, dass Menschen mich für eine Performance dieser Art gehalten haben. Extra authentic, extra edgy, aber nur in dem Rahmen, der zu ihrem Bild eines Kreativen gepasst hat. Ich versuchte zu lernen, in welchem Rahmen ich meine ‘Edginess’ ausleben durfte, ohne in unsichere Gefilde zu kommen. So ging es mir bereits in der Schulzeit, als ich gleichzeitig ausgelacht und bewundert wurde: Du hast immer dein Ding gemacht, du warst immer so anders und hast das einfach durchgezogen. Aber sobald ich den Bogen sozusagen überspannte, etwas außerhalb ihres Bildes einer angepasst-unangepassten Person getan habe, wurde ich belächelt, beschämt, ausgeschlossen. Ich war immer somehow “anders”.
Second, it would require that we de-emphasise the importance of work for finding personal fulfilment and meaning in our lives. Despite work being central to who we are and how we can make an impact on the lives of others, we overemphasise the centrality of work in our lives at our own peril.