Comments on: Your Personal Brand http://mentalpolyphonics.com/posts/your-personal-brand Committees exist to share blame. Tue, 22 May 2012 09:30:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Jack http://mentalpolyphonics.com/posts/your-personal-brand/comment-page-1#comment-71459 Jack Sun, 05 Jul 2009 06:50:35 +0000 http://mentalpolyphonics.com/?p=4730#comment-71459 "Authenticity" is one of Wittgenstein's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein#Philosophical_Investigations" rel="nofollow">linguistic conjuring tricks</a>. It's got bad spin: Are flocking geese being inauthentic or are they migrating? You're unique just like everybody else. Sounds obvious, I know. Remember to breathe. You're doing fine. @Kyla: The way men are socialized is completely fucked. “Authenticity” is one of Wittgenstein’s linguistic conjuring tricks. It’s got bad spin: Are flocking geese being inauthentic or are they migrating?

You’re unique just like everybody else. Sounds obvious, I know. Remember to breathe. You’re doing fine.

@Kyla: The way men are socialized is completely fucked.

]]> By: Kyla http://mentalpolyphonics.com/posts/your-personal-brand/comment-page-1#comment-71457 Kyla Sun, 05 Jul 2009 02:04:13 +0000 http://mentalpolyphonics.com/?p=4730#comment-71457 I wonder how much of the "just be yourself" advice is because the type of guys asking "how do I make girls like me?" are generally not ones that could pull of a fake personality. If they could do it, they'd have already done it. The only thing worse than an insecure loser is an insecure loser trying to be suave. I wonder how much of the “just be yourself” advice is because the type of guys asking “how do I make girls like me?” are generally not ones that could pull of a fake personality. If they could do it, they’d have already done it. The only thing worse than an insecure loser is an insecure loser trying to be suave.

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