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the only flex that gets harder the more you try to perform it.
means the quality of being genuine, true to one's actual self or origins rather than imitated or faked.
from From the Greek 'authentikos,' meaning original or genuine, built on 'authentes' — one who acts on their own authority, a master or even a self-doer. It traveled through Late Latin 'authenticus' into Old French and on into English, where by the late Middle Ages it described things that were 'real' as opposed to forged or borrowed. The modern sense of being true to one's inner self is a much later, psychological bloom on this old root about owning your own deeds.
- word origin
- Greek authentikos: one who acts on their own authority
- the paradox
- announcing it usually proves you lack it
- market price
- a $2.4 trillion buzzword in modern advertising
- brain science
- genuine smiles use muscles you cannot fake voluntarily
- existential roots
- Sartre called bad faith lying to yourself about freedom