What’s better than real?
Nothing.
Anything less than real is… well, unreal.
So why settle for it? Why sell it?
We’ve built a whole industry—no, a whole culture—around packaging, polishing, and presenting. Webinars on “tone,” courses on “executive presence,” guides to “effective storytelling.” All valuable, sure—but only if they amplify truth, not replace it.
Because if you’re not being real, you’re either:
wasting someone’s time, denying yourself, or worse—performing a version of you that isn’t actually you.
And performances? They age fast. They crack.
They exhaust.
You start feeling like a ghost inside a character everyone else still applauds.
Here’s the thing: Being real is scary. But faking it—over time—is scarier.
Because one day you’ll realize you’ve built an entire life (or career, or relationship, or reputation) on something that wasn’t quite you.
So say the thing. Be the thing. Even if your voice shakes. Even if someone walks away. Because the right ones—the real ones—will stay. Or they’ll come find you.
And in the end, being real might not make you popular.
But it will make you free.
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