Saturday, November 26, 2011

Authenticity

I found out today that the scariest thing for me in the world is not having authenticity.
I can easily get this trap of self-satisfactory happy fool person that I think I am doing it right
when I am totally wrong. I mean, desperately wrong.
For the worse, when no one is really telling me what the problem is, and I could live it up, 
and continue to be a stranger in this real world. This is really scary. 

I happen to listen to Sheryl Sandberg speech on leadership. 
Sheryl is, without a single doubt, a woman of authenticity. 
Her career track record can be more than perfect and the powerful speech 
really made me think of what the "real" person is.
She even emphasized in the speech on how important true means of communication are.
Meaningful communication, that is all we really need and want except one lives in no one land.



Until today, for past few weeks, I had been living in a sort of "empty" days.
Not enough get up and go. 
Try to motivate myself but not sure which direction I should be headed.
Now, I got this real feeling and I need to accomplish a particular, very specific thing.
It is DIE-HARD. 
But better than nothing, for me. 
Because I stop thinking in terms of "A or B". 
If I do A, I cannot do B. 
It is different now, it's "A and B".
I do A, "and" I do B. 
Isn't it much productive?
I wanna be authentic "and" productive. 

Doing many things does not mean less devotion. 
I pay 100% effort to every single one of them.

Because that is what I chose to do, and I believe authentic people would do the same.