Personality requires an audience, states Richard Todd in his intriguing book, The Thing Itself: On the Search for Authenticity. Todd goes on to note that the concept of character is different in that consistency is its hallmark, built out of incremental deeds, whereas...
The caveat first, followed by the but… First, I believe, as many of us intuitively recognize, that technology in many ways has stunted our capacity to connect meaningfully with other people. Of course, it allows us to form a myriad of networks through which we...
I recently wrote that authenticity is a concept of the self that is perpetually evolving and that conversation is a means by which we can navigate towards self-awareness. In reading Maria Konnikova’s book, The Confidence Game, I am reminded of another feature of the...
I believe that through conversation we can live better and work well, as individuals and communities, personally and professionally. In that context, I spent the last two months experimenting with Improv, taking the beginner’s course with local Improv group, Backline...
In a social and business landscape that applauds endeavors to build the bottom line of a corporation rather than build our character, where utilitarian outcomes are prized over human ones, we succumb to an always on, continually judged and never enough expectation of...
Stop endeavoring to seek out your true, immutable authentic self as that is an impossible task. However, do not then succumb to the pessimistic despair in believing everything and everyone, including you, is irredeemably artificial. To attempt to define that singular,...
