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How to Stop Conforming to the Pack and Be Authentic
“Understand: as children and young adults, we are taught to conform to certain codes of behavior and ways of doing things. We learn that being different comes with a social price. But there is a greater price to pay for slavishly conforming: we lose the power that comes from our individuality, from a way of doing things that is authentically our own.” -Robert Greene
At our current moment, the world is full of inauthenticity.
You see it in your news feeds, in your workplace, and on the street; people are wearing masks.
They are putting up a facade and pretending to be someone they’re not in order to be liked and chosen.
We have built a culture that rewards conformity and punishes individuality.
As James Altucher once wrote,
“When we are not chosen, we feel bad. When we are chosen — even by idiots — we feel good. We need to unlearn this imprisonment. Not dissect and analyze it. Just completely unlearn it.”
This article will help you do just that.
Here we go.
