- We live in a culture that
is starving for authenticity. We want our leaders, our co-workers,
our family members, our friends, and everyone else we interact
with to tell us the truth and to be themselves. Most important,
we want to have the personal freedom and confidence to say, do,
and be who we really are, without worrying so much about how
we appear to others and what they might think or say about us.
Sadly, however, even though we may say we want to live in a way
that is true to our deepest passions, beliefs, and desires; most
of us don't and it's not that easy. We've been taught by our
parents, teachers, spouses, friends, co-workers, politicians,
the media, and others, that it's more important to be liked and
to fit in than it is to be who we truly are. In addition, many
of us assume that who we are is not good enough and therefore
we're constantly trying to fix ourselves, or to act like others
who we think are better than us.
However, as the famous 19th century author and poet Oscar Wilde
so brilliantly stated, "Be yourself, everyone else is already
taken."
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