Like kids, we ultimately are more comfortable when we present our authentic selves (within reason) to friends and colleagues.
This helps unlock the creative potential within us; individually and collectively reconnecting with our authentic selves and so perceiving business challenges as opportunities for life enhancement.
The more urgently we quest for our authentic selves, the more they tend to recede.
We talk about craving authenticity from people and businesses, and we go searching for our authentic selves.
He encourages us to becomes our "authentic" selves.
Even the thriving self-help movement emphasizes the recovery of our "authentic selves".
"I think when that stigma was taken away and we could be our authentic selves, that made an enormous difference".
If "The Empties" has a directly political dimension, you could say it has to do with thinking about how our "authentic selves" are largely held together by — among other things — stimulants and antidepressants, cellular technology, climate control, credit cards.
The counterargument to all of this is that we should just be our authentic selves the old-fashioned way - offline, most likely in a dimly lit bar with friends.
"We fight hard enough every single day to be seen as our authentic selves and to be treated with respect," said Wolfcave, 34, in an interview at a San Francisco bar on Monday night.
The dream of online anonymity revives an old romantic hope – that we might disappear ourselves, like Salinger, from an unfeeling world that is doomed to intrude upon and misconstrues our authentic selves in equal measure.
