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I'm proud of myself for not being fake. I'm difficult sometimes and have a few screws loose, but I'm 100% me.
Be who you are and say what you feel. Because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.
yeah, you’re not rid of me
i’ll make you lick my injuries
i’m gonna twist your head off, see
EB Another word that you often critique is ‘authenticity’. Today, authenticity tends to be fetishized in contemporary art in a very uncritical way. The same is true, to some extent, in mass culture. There’s even a book by business management writers B. Joseph Pine II and James H. Gilmore called Authenticity: What Consumers Really Want (2007). What, in your opinion, is wrong with it?
TM Firstly, it has to do with power relations in knowledge: authenticity is always defined by the one who consumes the so-called authentic. It’s almost always construed for the other. And, secondly, if the other is claiming it for themselves, such authenticity could either be a reaction to or a way of internalizing dominant values. That word still righteously circulates in the documentary milieu today with regards to films made on and from Africa, for example.
I made a film on Vietnam (my so-called native land or birth culture) titled Surname Viet Given Name Nam. You can tell immediately by this title that a national identity is not given but construed according to circumstances and contexts (here in its gender politics) – and the more you look into what you think is unique to your culture, the wider it gets. What is thought to be typically Vietnamese turns out to be not so typical after all. In the series of names shown and historically used to refer to Vietnam throughout the centuries, one can acutely discern the diversely political periods of colonization and foreign rules. One sees how the country’s identity is, in reality, a multiplicity and an assemblage – constantly being construed in the present. What is conventionally understood as authentic is highly questionable because you can only be authentic if you confine yourself to locking doors and putting up fences.
‘There is No Such Thing as Documentary’: An Interview with Trinh T. Minh-ha
How To Boost Your Confidence
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Pile 1: Wear what you like more. You'd be surprised at how much dressing up in your own preferred style can boost your entire mood. Try the things you wouldn't have tried before. Enjoy the process of picking out an outfit as well as the end result so you don't feel stressed about it.
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Pile 2: Wear things that make you seem mysterious. You may be the type that wears their heart on their sleeve. This may have been something that people have taken advantage of in the past. By wearing more black, gray or muted colors you will be less predictable. This freedom of no expectations can allow you to be whoever you want to be, which includes your most confident self!
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Pile 3: Speak up more. Try sharing your thoughts with people, even if you believe them to be indifferent. Not only will this increase your own confidence, but others will feel inspired as well. A dimmed light and blocked throat chakra is holding you back from your most authentic and confident self.
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It's all true. Ok, mostly true - I kind of hestitate when thinking it's important to show that patience and kindness and understanding have limits. Sometimes - very rarely, but it happens - I get so angry that I act irrationally, but I don't think it's a good thing. It's just a way I am. Let's say - it's life. Life is not perfect. You don't want to see your kid lying? don't ever put them in situation when talking the truth means you get angry. If they still lie, find a reason, why. Want to get the dog coming to you, when you call them? Treats and affirmation is a way. etc What I wonder about: I have told to others for years and years that all you need for raising happy kids and making pet's lives good is love. Because for me love MEANS treating other(s) with trust, respect and being honest with them and also I try to keep them from harm and get them as quality stuff as I can afford. And let them to coose themselves, if it's possible. 3 years old can totally decide between 2 outfits I present to them or when I walk the dog and she wants to make a turn in the streetcorner and I'm not in hurry, ok. We turn this way today. But my country and probably the whole world is full of people who think they act in the name of love yelling, punishing, forcing, giving off "you have to do as I want because I'm smarter, your owner or parent or just grown-up" vibes and shortly being dicks.
Is this what neurotypicals are? (Because I'm neuroweird and they are so different.) Or why do people act like total shitheads? No emotional intelligence? Why? How? Is love the wrong answer, most people need to study to parent? Like - use brains, not heart? The hell?
And still and still - for me "all you need is love" IS the right way.
so many people do not understand that 1) animals are not people, and 2) they aren't teaching their animals what they THINK they are teaching them.
dog group on the book of faces, someone is asking for advice on how to get their dog to come to them after the dog is done relieving itself outside. The dog doesn't like coming to them an they spend ten or twenty minutes or more catching the dog each time to bring it in. Which reminded me of one of many attempts to talk a person through trying to fix exactly this same behavior in *many* other dogs over the years...
Me: So, a quick question for you... does the dog not coming to you and you having to chase them down frustrate you?
Them: Of course!
Me: So what do you do when you finally either catch the dog or get them to come to you?
Them: I give the dog a correction!
Me: So. You get hands on your dog and then you immediately punish them for allowing you to get hands on them. And you wonder why your dog has developed the habit of not coming to you?
Them: No, that's not... I'm punishing them for not coming when I call!
Me: Which was.... fifteen minutes ago, or so, you said?
Them: Yes, when I first called them!
Me: Dogs brains literally cannot link an abstract thought like that. A thought and a consequence MUST happen within 2.4 seconds of one another, or the consequence becomes linked to the most recent behavior, thought, or activity. So, tell me... how is your dog supposed to understand that you punishing them is for the event fifteen minutes ago when you have made such a concerted, if unintentional, effort to teach them that them getting close enough for you to lay hands on them in the yard means an immediate punishment?
Them: But that's not what I *meant*!
Me: Doesn't matter what YOU meant... what THEY learned is that they come to you, and they get punished. Stop punishing your dog for the behavior that you want to see more of.
Stop anthropomorphizing your animals, folks. They don't think like us. Stop setting them - and yourself - up for failure.
“It doesn’t matter who or how many come at you, you have to be you. Confidently. Authentically. Bravely.”
—Ryan Holiday, Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favours the Brave
“An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it's their path, it's what excites them, it's what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.”
—Wayne Dyer
Inner world 🥚 All embryos start out as female, the source of creation. Every night, we return to this embryonic state so that we can create a new experience each morning.
there’s something about living life deliberately…wearing clothes that you actually want to and that you feel reflect you and your style not just because you’ve had them for years and don’t know what else you would throw on….listening to songs and creating playlists that excite you and represent your actual mood not just listening to songs that you’ve had downloaded for years that don’t make you feel anything special anymore…it’s VERY easy to stay with what you’re comfortable and it might take a bit of experimenting before you find what feels like a deliberate choice that reflects more of YOU but it’s absolutely worth the leap of faith you may have to convince yourself to make in order to stop feeling like a passenger in your own life
life hound 🌲🌄🦢
Brad text the photo of him in full costume over to his agent. Was the wardrobe 20th century ironic overkill or post-post-post modern Madonna blatancy?!
For Brad to really WERQ this Dollar Store photo shoot, he needed to know the backstory behind the costume and it’s designer, as well a passable fabricated construct of the social media campaign.
Who was the creator? What drove he/her/them? Influenced he/her/them? Inspired he/her/them? Made he/her/them who they are?
After wondering briefly if he left out too many pronouns, Brad then text the words “storytelling” “impact” and “authenticity” exactly five seconds apart. While he found intention rarely mattered in life, he knew buzz words always got you places.
Sooooo… Where was that exactly?
Brad would learn from AI that afternoon it was a public pool in the Valley about 20 min from Kim K's mansion in regular heavy traffic.
Five minutes later, his agent would call to commend him for 'the richness in texture of his texts.' Apparently, contrast was everything when it came to... well, everything.
Wowsers! Being all over the place was finally paying off.
Brad would gleefully repeat the phrase ‘texture of texts’ until just before dinner when his boyfriend Chris told him to ‘cut it out’ Full House style. Brad had just enough time to research the gesture on the internet before sitting down but couldn't decipher if it was offensive until he pushed his kale salad around the plate long enough to feel full himself. Then it just clicked.
The ‘fake it until you make it' thing in America never sat right with Chris as there was always the chance that the people who said you made it were doing the same thing.
When you change your name, it is because you want to change the way people think of you.
And you want to change the way you want them to see you.
You are going through an identity change. You are going through a powerful inner transformation.
Your heart knows this transition will give you the inner clarity you need. Because your heart knows the way.
You are becoming clearer about who you are and what you want.
You have been so disconnected with yourself in the past that you could not even discern your own feelings, your own loyalties - of your heart and where it truly lies.
#spiritmessage #210422
Patti Smith // “Im going to promote myself exactly as I am, with all my weak points and my strong ones. My weak points are that I’m self-conscious and often insecure, and my strong point is that I don’t feel any shame about it.”
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