Acceptance

The Exhausting Game of Personal Performance: How to Embrace Your Authentic Self

The Exhausting Game of Personal Performance: How to Embrace Your Authentic Self
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The Exhausting Game of Personal Performance – You know what I mean – that constant feeling that you need to be someone else, someone better, someone more acceptable to others.  We have all felt it. That feeling that you will be unacceptable to society if you show your true self. And your family will disown …

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Written by Garv Chawla · Stoic of the Day
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