Authentic presentation

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People don’t seem to be capable of understanding another person’s ways if they’ve never been through it - they would either see them as a threat or with fascination. And what we often do is tailor our being to that person in order to remove what needs to be removed. Certainly not our most authentic selves. And neither should we be. Authenticity is such a vague term. Linked to the feeling of self and might be to large extent an illusion. The way we tailor how we present ourselves, the Japanese faces or the many different cultural names we have for this, is

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