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So whether your goal is to be the hammer, destroy mediocrity, or simply move the dirt, you've come to the right place. Now with the warm up done, let the gains begin. Hey, welcome back to Power Athlete Radio. I'm joined by my good friend Mike Sorrelli, and we are going to discuss authenticity in the talent war, which is Mike's book. We decided to go through it a little bit and I had a couple

questions that I want to get into. But I also wanted to talk a little bit about authenticity.

And the reason this popped up is I was actually going through some composition books.

And I love to write in composition books. And I... Old school. Oh yeah.

No, this is like, I love writing stuff now.

But I ended up pulling out a talk that I did at Summerstrong two years ago that had to do with

authenticity.

And as I was going through it, I realized I had kind of an interesting moment in that I believe that the reason that most

people feel inauthentic is most of what people say and do are not their own thoughts.

So I don't know where exactly this came from.

It was kind of like a moment epiphany.

I know it probably came from something in college because I ended up watching a video that had Jordan Peterson who kind of made a very similar claim. And I was like, did I get it from him? I'm like, no, I must have gotten this early on because I had never seen the video. But it's true. What most people do is when they're young, they kind of try on different coats, let's say, or different, you know, outfits or, you know, different leadership styles or different thoughts, right? And it's good. They can wear this stuff around. They can try it. They can see if

this ideology or this thought process works. And they kind of wear it like an old coat. And if it,

if it fits them, they wear it. And if not, they kind of throw it off. And the problem is, is that

at some point, you have to throw it off and decide what you believe.

And the reason that some people come off is inauthentic or things become authentic in a way is when you throw off that code or you throw off that other people's ideas and you start developing your own thought process and your own ideas and then you become authentic.

And we have this really great internal clock in our

stomach. When somebody says something, you're like, God, that just feels so disingenuous or so

inauthentic. And why do we think that? And it's because most of what people say and do

is not their own thoughts and they're just trying on other people's shit. And that authenticity

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