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No, it’s absolutely fantastic advice. But there’s a second part of it that needs be attached. Be yourself, and be ready for feedback. Your self might just be aw
by pesmhey 7y ago
No, it’s absolutely fantastic advice. But there’s a second part of it that needs be attached. Be yourself, and be ready for feedback. Your self might just be awful. I think everyone has this happen to them, where who they are needs some adjustment to fit into the bigger picture. Not to blindly conform, but to really find your niche.
The feedback may not always be pleasant, especially if you’ve spent a lot of time not being yourself. If the self you’ve constructed deviates so far from the norm, you’re going to struggle normalizing it. Maybe you’ve created the next big thing, and everyone needs to adjust to you, sure. But maybe you haven’t. And even if you have, you’re going to need to assist everyone in understanding how you’ve come to where you are. And that’s going to take work.
Again, being yourself is the best thing you can do. It’s great advice. Be ready for feedback. And be ready to defend your self against that feedback or to let if guide you. But there’s absolutely no other way to live your life than to be yourself. At all. Anything less is a soulless existence; an existence worse than death.
TLDR, be yourself, and be ready for a reality check. It might come, it might wrong, it might be anything. But do not sell your soul to someone else’s.