When we worry that our authentic self is not going to be accepted, we tend to start wearing masks.

At a certain point, it gets exhausting just like if you were constantly and perpetually on a stage

and could never get off it.

And anything that's exhausting you is probably not aligned with your whole self.

Hey, welcome back to the Personality Hacker podcast.

My name is Joel Mark Witt.

And I'm Antonio, Dodge.

So, Antonia, I would say that of all the things that we do at Personality Hacker,

when I, when we're done with a podcast, like recording like we're doing right now,

I am the most exhausted I ever am.

I think it's the, it's not the hardest thing we do, but it's the most tiring thing we do.

And I think it's for a few reasons. I think it's, we have to basically generate content,

almost like a message in a bottle. We have to like come with an idea,

a concept, content. And then we have to go quote unquote on stage. We have to go into more

of a performance place where we have to have lights on and cameras and it's staged. Like I'm

not sitting how I'd normally sit if I was like comfortably watching a movie or I was chill.

I have to curate like I have to sit up

straight I have to be right in front of a microphone I don't have a lot of range of motion I have to be

like basically a curated like person right now in order to engage on this podcast so it it's exhausting

because I have to hold it almost like a pose I have this position, this frame. I've got to stay in good

thoughts. You and I have to be in rapport. It's complex coordination between the two of us. Like,

you know, if we make mistakes, that's an edit point or if we say something that's uncalibrated,

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