Episode Details

What does being genuine even mean when everybody only puts their best self out there? I thought I was authentic until I looked properly, and I am not.

I am freezing cold all the time, on painkillers all the time, and I have just started diabetic injections. Some days it takes two hours to get me out of bed. If I never say any of that, people ask how I manage it all and assume I am not suffering. You do not want to share every bad day. But if you only ever share the good ones, that is not honesty either.

One thing to try: Next time somebody asks how you are, answer one notch more honestly than you were going to.

In this episode

• (0:05) What authentic even means now
• (1:40) Assuming I was genuine, then realising I am not
• (3:11) The nine types, and which box I am really in
• (4:44) Gandhi, and doing everything for ourselves
• (7:27) Cold, painkillers, and starting the diabetic injections
• (9:06) The days it takes two hours to get me out of bed
• (11:36) Phoning someone a fortnight later and hearing the truth
• (12:51) How much do you share, and how often

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