Welcome guys and gals to the Man Talk Show. I'm Connor Beaton, and today we're going to be talking about why

inauthenticity might be destroying your success, your relationship, and how to become more

authentic. So in order to do that, let's actually define what authenticity is, because I think a lot of

people have different versions and iterations and definitions of this. But let's just go straight to the good old book, the good old dictionary,

and see what it has to say. So by definition, being authentic or authenticity is of undisputed

origin and is genuine based on facts, accurate or reliable. Now, the important thing to note here

is that why we create unreliable, non-factual, inaccurate thoughts or situations in our life

that are inauthentic are actually because of our rational mind, which is very interesting

because in our modern culture, we've really been taught that our rational mind should be able

to solve any problem and that it should have the answers to any situation and it should be

able to understand what our path is in any moment and any circumstance and any context.

But the challenge is is that the rational mind is really designed to do one or two things. First and foremost,

it's designed to keep us safe, but it's designed to know the answer. And so anytime that our

pride-filled, rational mind is compromised or has an error or some sort of distortion

or misperception, it quickly tries to sweep that under the rug and ignores it.

And that's where inaccuracies and inauthenticities actually start to come from because the rational

mind knows that there's a problem, but it doesn't know how to deal with that problem.

And it usually gets swept under the rug of the emotional mind.

So we start to feel this discomfort.

We start to feel that there's something wrong.

There's something inaccurate about what's going on.

But we don't know what it is.

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