Tag: authenticity

  • Like Group Norms with Better Lighting

    There’s that famous scene in Monty Python’s Life of Brian where Brian tells the crowd they are all individuals and shouldn’t follow anyone. The crowd immediately responds, in unison, that they are all individuals. Then one guy quietly disagrees… and the crowd tells him to shut up. “You don’t need to follow anybody. You’ve got…

  • A Conversation With Myself About Authenticity… Ain’t That the Realest Thing?

    Over the years, I’ve sat through more workshops than I can count where the message was simple and bold: Be authentic. Be real. Be yourself. It’s the kind of advice that sounds obvious until you actually sit with it. Recently — on a random Wednesday morning fueled by coffee and overactive brain monkeys — I…