Jordan Peterson - How to Know You're Being Authentic Or Fake

Jordan Peterson - How to Know You're Being Authentic Or Fake

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[anjanar]

Being rejected for who you are is better rather than being accepted for who you are not.

[emmadaily]

Being authentic is painful. You’ll especially know that you were being authentic when it hurts BAD when criticized for the things you were authentic about.

[lizh]

I was raised by a narcissist, which basically taught me to be inauthentic because you're constantly trying to find the "right" answer instead of the true one. It been both hard and gratifying to figure out what I actually think and then learn to say it.

[rebecca_stone]

Oh my word, imagine having a teacher like him for a whole semester, close up like that. Truly a life changing experience.

[happiestman]

Jordan "I've thought about this for a long time" Peterson

[alexrose]

I've been being inauthentic most of my life. I'm very introverted and don't like social situations. I don't find it hard to be social per se but I find myself mirroring other people's personalities rather than being myself because it's easier to make conversation with people when I match their level of frequency.

I will copy their tone of voice, inflections, body posture, and gestures. When I was younger and going to school this skill was very useful when needing to interact with a large group of people on a daily basis, but now that I'm older and I'm more in control of what social settings I decide to participate in, I want to be more authentic so that I attract people in my life where I can be more myself. When I find myself being inauthentic I pause and stay silent. I'd rather say very little and have my words be a reflection of myself than to say a lot and have my words be hollow.

EDIT: Wow, thanks guys I had no idea that a lot of other people felt like me! I'm glad I'm not alone!

[sauravistheascended]

What is most discouraging is when you are authentic to inauthentic people and they hate you for it.

[aldolunabueno]

*The feeling of being authentic like a sixth sense*

2:17 How do you know if you're not authentic?
You know you're saying something inauthentic when it makes you feel weak.

2:59 How to fix it?
Pay close attention to what you feel. When you feel weak, stop talking and change your train of thought (look for other words, knowledge, memories and focus on other things perhaps more positive and present at the moment).

3:24 How do you realize that weakness?
You feel that you are stepping on the wrong foot or on a ground that does not support you well, and you feel that you are betraying yourself.

5:04 Attention over intellect
The most common mistake among intelligent people is to identify with their intellect. You are more than your ability to think and speak. The intellect is subservient to attention because attention is what teaches the intellect.

[susanb]

This is exactly the challenge when creating art. You’re exposing yourself and that’s scary.

[Shine]

"Attention is greater than intellect" thats deep

[shayneconway]

Being authentic is being able to say the things most people have a difficult time being able to say. Expressing deep emotion and spiritual intelligence is not an easy thing to do.

[lividea]

He's spot on about the self betrayal feeling. I've been a people pleaser my whole life and have found myself feeling internally uneasy when talking about politics a certain way to be diplomatic or down playing my spiritual beliefs, for example.

[OneEyedKeys]

If more people learned this stuff, they would be less likely to be 'owned' by ideologies. This, in turn, would improve the health of society and the entire world at large.

[rebeccahalverson]

I love how mad the class gets when he confuses Bilbo and Frodo hahaha

[GETTIN]

I rather be hated for who I am, than to be loved for who I’m not.

[BanjoPixelSnack]

I’ve been in therapy for anxiety for years. Turns out I didn’t have an anxiety problem. I had an authenticity problem. That churning feeling in my intuition was telling me that I was living a life that was wrong for me - not that there was anything wrong *with* me. I grew up with an aggressive and cruel narcissistic mother and abandoning father. I learned to comply no matter what to feel safe. But my true feelings never disappeared. They were still there trying to be heard all this time. And the anxiety was my body warning me that I was trying as hard as I could to NOT live authentically.

[crankyanker]

I would be so petrified to turn in an essay to Peterson 😂

[alexwoodward]

8:30 when you expose your true, original self and get negative feedback from the outside world, don't be quick to pull yourself back in, understand that you may be completely correct and the world is only pushing back bc your expression of truth is a threat to their false conception of reality.

[danigomes]

I was once asked by a group of girls in my class to participate in a birthday video thing for one of their friends who I knew but wasn’t particularly close with. They asked and I replied no in front of them. To my surprise, they were shocked, some laughed and one asked me why not… I explained that she wasn’t my friend and I didn’t think it was my place to take part in something that should be memorable for her. One person understood and the rest laughed again and totally missed the point. Later on the birthday girl unfollowed me on social media 😅. I’m glad I was authentic to myself.