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What It Actually Means to Be Authentic
The three things that separate authentic people from everyone else
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“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” — Oscar Wilde
At some point I got so exhausted in my life that I didn’t need any other change, just to become authentic for the first time.
It took me 39 years to understand what it takes to live an authentic life.
Decades ago I would have said that I have to become indifferent and able to say “fuck you” in people’s faces without a blink.
And I have always admired those people who were able to say what they had on their mind without being scared and do whatever they wanted.
People who don’t explain themselves because they are so centered and unbothered.
I thought this was something genetically hardcoded in those lucky bastards but not in people like me.
But here is the good news for you and me: I was wrong back then.
