6 Quiet Habits to Ruthlessly Preserve Your Authenticity

And stop letting the world take pieces of you

Blank faces are evidence of it.

Do you ever have those days when you forget who you are? You look around at the world, and your life, and you sit objectively, almost unaware of how you got here.

I do.

On those days, I feel like part of my identity is swimming in the ether somewhere disconnected from me. Does that make any sense?

In those moments, an idea comes to mind. Your job, like you, is to not let the world take pieces of you. Here’s how.

The world is designed to pull you around. Advertisements, the status quo, thought leaders. They are all pulling on you to think the way they think the world should be.

Big businesses try to convince you that you need their product or service to be happy.

Why do you think most ads show happy smiley faces when the product is in the shot? They want you to think the way to be happy is to: buy more and think like them.

This world is designed to take and make you into something.

People are built on values.

You go through life experiencing it. As you do, you build yourself into well, you.

Feeling bad about being rude edges you closer to being kinder, scratching your head in meetings inches you nearer to efficiency, and feeling frustrated by not reaching your goals pushes you towards Netflix.

Your emotions help understand how ‘you’ you are. They are something to pay close attention to.

If your ambitions tell you that you want to be an NYT bestseller, a big-time entrepreneur, or a full-time dog walker, you have to make decisions in line with that.

Writing is simple. You must write. It’s the verb. You need to practice in order to be it. There is nothing else. But life will always get in the way.

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