Brilliant! I love that perspective although I've never thought of authenticity as a vocation.
I still think authenticity is about weirdness (tweeted few times about it today, and will probably write an essay about it), but now maybe I should look at it as "discovering your own weirdness"? Because if something is called truly authentic, it must be different, unique in a way. So many people will inevitably perceive it as weird.
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This one is my favourite part:
"The authentic self has no final form or destination. It does not hide behind a grand or storied revelation. It is perennially incomplete. A constant work in progress. It exists only in its unfinished state. "
It's interesting to see "authenticity" as a process with no end. This is particularly interesting if we define it this way. So "authenticity" is not a state or your "voice"/"style"/etc but a journey, your unique way of living and doing things and expressing it in art forms. What do you think?
An exceptionally deep and extensive discussion of "being authentic", particularly in relation to thought processes of one's life. It is a marvel that you have encapsulated such complex thought processes in this one article. Thank you for writing yet another fabulously thought provoking article, as always.
Brilliant! I love that perspective although I've never thought of authenticity as a vocation.
I still think authenticity is about weirdness (tweeted few times about it today, and will probably write an essay about it), but now maybe I should look at it as "discovering your own weirdness"? Because if something is called truly authentic, it must be different, unique in a way. So many people will inevitably perceive it as weird.
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This one is my favourite part:
"The authentic self has no final form or destination. It does not hide behind a grand or storied revelation. It is perennially incomplete. A constant work in progress. It exists only in its unfinished state. "
It's interesting to see "authenticity" as a process with no end. This is particularly interesting if we define it this way. So "authenticity" is not a state or your "voice"/"style"/etc but a journey, your unique way of living and doing things and expressing it in art forms. What do you think?
Cheers,
John
An exceptionally deep and extensive discussion of "being authentic", particularly in relation to thought processes of one's life. It is a marvel that you have encapsulated such complex thought processes in this one article. Thank you for writing yet another fabulously thought provoking article, as always.