Human beings are faced with a bewildering array of choices on a daily basis. These choices range from easy to difficult, depending on the situation.
Mundane decisions are often easier, as the stakes are lower. What you choose to eat for dinner tonight, assuming the choice isn’t between arsenic and steak, is unlikely to drastically alter your life.
Decisions and dilemmas pertaining to personal development are a different story. Not only is our burden deciding on what to have for dinner, it’s determining what type of person we want to be. This is often decided for us by our genes and our environment; nevertheless, there enough is left undetermined by these two factors to allow for free will to come into play.
Authenticity is an important concept within the field of personal development. Definitions of the term abound and vary. One general theme among them is trueness – that is, a thing is said to be authentic if it is not fake. Thus, authenticity within the realm of human life is about honesty.
But does authenticity depend on categorical honesty?
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