hair spray and make up

They all look pretty good.

Yes, the talking heads on TV that read the news to us all look pretty darn good.

Then they open their mouths and if you listen you realize it is all hair spray and make up.

It is difficult to put your finger on authenticity. It is painfully difficult to put your finger on your own authenticity.

It's not about being relentlessly honest, that is an indulgence of the judgmental.

It's not about doing what has always worked, that is a common deception.

It's not about you or me at all, if we work only in our own self interest then we are not being authentic.

"Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice." - Ayn Rand, philosopher.

I don't know.

Being authentic is about not reacting to what we think the world is.
Being authentic is acting according to what the world really is.

Of course figuring out what the world really is, well, that's another posting.