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Radical Authenticity: The Path of Unapologetic Self-Expression
How to truly not give a single absolute fuck.
You voluntarily put on a fake mask - to not be found out - for who you are.
This “mask” is a false persona that was intended to cater to everybody’s view of you due to fear of judgement and a needy desire to be accepted. Remember those times you pretended to be something that you are not? The moments where you directly copied the popular trends to be perceived as one of the cool kids.
Yes, it is childish, yet you may very well be engaging [and be completely unaware] in the following detrimental behaviors:
allowing people to constantly walk over you causing you to feel in a way that resembles walking on egg shells
you feel as if you are invisible in social settings to the point you do not exist and have a difficult time creating new social connections
you often get stuck inside your head unable to break out of your shell
In today’s entry - you will discover how to radiate a level of authenticity that cannot be replicated elsewhere.
You can shamelessly express exactly who you are despite anybody’s thoughts and opinions.
When this Way of life is applied correctly you won’t have to question any of your existing social relationships due to it’s extremely polarizing nature. Be honest: do you really want to continue wasting your valuable time and energy? One thing’s for sure…
Life is too damn short to be forcing incompatible social connections.
NATURAL CONFIDENCE
Core confidence is given at birth then it gets stripped away by a world forcing you to fit in like everybody else in society.
You experienced it going through the education system.
You experienced it going through the corporate ladder.
You experience it now in one way or another and may not realize it.
This is a natural evolutionary process linked to survival [and yet the socialization part gets taken too literally to the point it crushes individuality].
By forcing people to fit in it stripes away everybody’s traits that make them unique from birth.
Children are the perfect example of how we are truly suppose to embrace self-expression.
After they’ve learned how to become socially well adjusted:
There is a window where they continue to shine bright before they’ve allowed the voices and opinions of others to dim their own light.
But you know what’s strange?
People continue about their lives… without ever questioning their beliefs.
LIFE AND DEATH BELIEFS
Let’s dive back into your memory bank to relive the past.
Remember the time where you asked many questions to an adult figure like mom, dad or a teacher at school.
Was there ever a point where he/she said:
“Because I said so.”
Looking back now you most likely understand how that statement was intended to make a kid quiet.
But have you ever considered how this tiny action effects a kid’s entire adult life?
The settle underlying dynamic basically communicates the following…
Stop following your natural curiosity
Do not question authority
Go away you are annoying and not worth my time
Younger you then operates in this mode of behavior for years to decades of your life.
Never having questioned [nor reexamined the experience through a matured and educated adult objective perspective] it not only shaped you but it’ll continue to determine the trajectory of your overall life experience if no changes are implemented immediately.
Now you consider the fact that you have gained more life experience reenforcing how this outdated limiting belief is a “success”.
It becomes even harder to let go of this belief because it has been proven to provide safety and security which taps into your evolutionary wiring.
Ever wondered why the older generation is so stubborn and unwilling to change?
You see.
People hold onto their belief systems as if it were a life or death situation.
Now combine the fact the vast majority have not proactively learned how to detach from thoughts to the observing position then consider this…
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it”
Are you starting to see the major problem here?
For your own sake - I hope you do something - with the invaluable information I’m providing to you.
INTUITIVE LIFE EXPERIMENTS
As you continue to be guided by the natural tendencies linked to your intuition:
Keep following your curiosity.
Curiosity leads you towards the path you are suppose to go down.
Do not allow fear to stop you.
Fear is what petrifies the masses to conform to what is given.
You see.
This gravitational pull is working behind the scenes for you… If only you trust your intuition with absolute blind faith.
When you treat life experiences as nothing but experiments, the world becomes a tool for you to leverage.
Through constant experimentation - while making observations of your behavior - you get crucial information that reveals your hidden individuality.
Commit to the Way.
At this point of my life I’ve lived more than half my lifespan [and only just recently discovered the truth behind this].
The sad reality?
People barely break the surface of their potential because deep down they do not even believe they can do it.
Through a closer lens - why would they attempt with such a slim chance of success with the odds of failure significantly higher.
And if we go even deeper:
If people attempted to pursue a deep dream and faced failure shortly after the first signs of resistance…
They would return back to a life WITHOUT a dream to get through their days.
Read that again.
People would rather not pursue the dream because the dream is still a POSSIBILITY if they do not attempt to go after it.
Hence why it would be a better option to remain a cog in the system with a daydream to get through the day.
UNAPOLOGETIC RADICAL AUTHENTICITY
I dare you to go against the grain in a socially unacceptable environment.
You’re doing it right if it feels like it will elicit confrontation.
Quite literally this exercise becomes a muscle endurance conditioning social exercise when done correctly.
Look.
Deep down inside you know your truth.
You know your truth in a way that absolutely nobody can explain it better than you.
Of course, this is making a generalized assumption that you have become best friends with rationality and objective sense of reality to the point you have not become a delusional case seen in the media.
With all this in mind - I have serious questions to ask you:
Why in the f would you apologize for who you are?
What is there to be sorry about exactly? For being you?
Would you rather repress who you are for another person that does not have your own self-interest in mind?
Follow these series of questions and you will begin to see a list of reasons why you should never ever apologize for being who you are.
Absolutely nobody is being held against their will to remain in your life so it is entirely on the individuality to either stay or leave.
Either way you will be living your best life with or without them.
Think about it.
Drop the fake people pleasing facade.
Be you on turbo.
Watch what happens very closely…
See ya on the mats,
POJ