Comments on: Authentic Potential http://unboundideas.com/2010/authentic-potential/ Ideas you need, wherever you need them Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:06:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=7605 By: basic-sense http://unboundideas.com/2010/authentic-potential/comment-page-1/#comment-34 basic-sense Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:32:23 +0000 http://unboundideas.com/?p=2568#comment-34 Thanks for the response Andrew! I'm not promoting the mask wearing but having experienced my own masks in the past, i think they served me to better understand myself. They served me to realize the real me, though it also had a lot to do with me facing the masks rather than using them to protect myself. The part about protecting the authentic self without the mask, I meant that in a nurturing way so that the self can flourish in face of negative criticism. Arya Thanks for the response Andrew! I’m not promoting the mask wearing but having experienced my own masks in the past, i think they served me to better understand myself. They served me to realize the real me, though it also had a lot to do with me facing the masks rather than using them to protect myself.

The part about protecting the authentic self without the mask, I meant that in a nurturing way so that the self can flourish in face of negative criticism.

Arya

]]> By: Andrew Thorn http://unboundideas.com/2010/authentic-potential/comment-page-1/#comment-33 Andrew Thorn Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:47:49 +0000 http://unboundideas.com/?p=2568#comment-33 Hi Arya - I don't think it ever serves us to be something that we are not. I just don't feel it helps to pretend, even when we think the truth is too ugly for others to hear. I would rather have people not like me because they know the real me, then to like me because I told them what they want to hear. That said, I do not think we have to be abusive or abrasive when we are acting authentic. I think we can be ourselves without being offensive. I think we don the mask to because we think any other way would be offensive. I don't buy that. Just be the real you. There is nothing worse than somebody asking, "Are you for real?" Live Today! Love Today! Andrew Hi Arya – I don’t think it ever serves us to be something that we are not. I just don’t feel it helps to pretend, even when we think the truth is too ugly for others to hear. I would rather have people not like me because they know the real me, then to like me because I told them what they want to hear.

That said, I do not think we have to be abusive or abrasive when we are acting authentic. I think we can be ourselves without being offensive. I think we don the mask to because we think any other way would be offensive. I don’t buy that.

Just be the real you. There is nothing worse than somebody asking, “Are you for real?”

Live Today! Love Today!

Andrew

]]> By: basic-sense http://unboundideas.com/2010/authentic-potential/comment-page-1/#comment-30 basic-sense Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:40:30 +0000 http://unboundideas.com/?p=2568#comment-30 It's interesting how the shields and masks we wear may or may not serve us the way we think they are. By nature, being authentic is easy, we just make it difficult maybe because of fear of not being accepted (without the masks). I think to some degree we have to protect (or carry diligently) the authentic self like the way you had to overcome your fear in the presentation and go through with it. In a way were you carrying a shield to express your authenticity? Some situations may not invite our innocence to travel freely without criticism. But the situation is in the mind, the mind we can control. Maybe we don't have to protect it per say, just carry it diligently. What do you think? It’s interesting how the shields and masks we wear may or may not serve us the way we think they are. By nature, being authentic is easy, we just make it difficult maybe because of fear of not being accepted (without the masks). I think to some degree we have to protect (or carry diligently) the authentic self like the way you had to overcome your fear in the presentation and go through with it. In a way were you carrying a shield to express your authenticity? Some situations may not invite our innocence to travel freely without criticism. But the situation is in the mind, the mind we can control. Maybe we don’t have to protect it per say, just carry it diligently. What do you think?

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