Be sincere be plain be transparent be simple be honest be vulnerable be naive
Make yourself known and obvious and transparent to the world, to those around you, to those you meet, to everyone you interact with
Why?
Because once you’re honest with the world — you can be honest with yourself
Once you’re honest with the world — you can be honest with yourself
Once the world sees WHO YOU ARE — YOU SEE WHO YOU ARE
When you project to the world some other image then who you are — then the world responds to someone else
And then you start partly believing that falsehood
You can never truly believe it — because deep within you always know something’s amiss
But you become confused
And it’s hard to operate when there’s confusion
It’s hard to make things work when there is confusion
But once you’re utterly sincere and plain and transparent to the world — a TRANSFORMATION occurs
Once you REVEALED yourself to the world, once you REVEALED your PLAN to the world — you now have SKIN IN THE GAME
It is now REAL
The bridges are burned
The world KNOWS
And once you can no longer hide it — you lose your own perverse incentive to refuse to accept it
Now that the WORLD KNOWS — you yourself MIGHT AS WELL ADMIT IT too
And the temptation to NOT admit it, to NOT ACCEPT THE TRUTH ABOUT ONESELF — it is powerful
Never underestimate the extent to which you want to delude yourself with the false narratives about yourself
Beware of false sincerity, obviously
From the times of the royal courts to the times of social media and personal brands — humans weaponized the information about themselves
You can broadcast an entire identity with an entire biography — and every single part of that will be a lie
You can be completely deluded to what it even means to be honest and real and sincere
You believe it to be this over-sharing of this fake image you created, or cherry-picked aspects of you which you wish were the actual truth about you
No
It’s not what you think defines you
It’s not what you think the world wants to hear
It’s not the volume, not how much you say
It’s not how many people hear it and see it
It’s not false vulnerability
All of the above is already FILTERED
It already passed a filter of what you believe BEING REAL is
How do you get it unfiltered?
Just VERBALIZE EVERYTHING YOU FEEL AND THINK AND WANT
Mind you — you YOURSELF don’t have the full access to what you actually feel and think and want,
But AS you continue REOWNING who you are, more and more — then MAKING A STAND FOR IT — by OWNING IT PUBLICLY — the truth about yourself becomes clearer and clearer
And then you continue ACCEPTING that TRUTH
And you continue REVEALING it to the world
And as you do — you become more ready for the truth
And thus it’s this positive upward loop of TRUTH about yourself
The very opposite of the downward spiral of self-delusion and fake appearances
Therefore
—ASSUME that people can SEE THROUGH YOU
—ACT as though people were able to SEE RIGHT THROUGH YOU
—and COMMUNICATE WITH THEM as though they could SEE RIGHT THROUGH YOU
Be simple about being simple
And once you can be honest with yourself — a PROFOUND TRANSFORMATION occurs
YOU NOW KNOW WHAT YOU WANT, ACTUALLY WANT
And then you can DO WHAT YOU WANT
And BE what you want to be, actually
But everything ever begins with the truth
There’s the truth — there’s what is — there’s how things work — and you WORK with that — or fail
So begin with utter sincerity, transparency, honesty