Tuesday, June 12, 2007

How To be Authentic

John Neffinger: The Riddle That Stumped Paul Krugman - Politics on The Huffington Post: "So what is this 'authenticity' that political pros from both the left and right see in people like Thompson?

To those of us who study non-verbal communication, it looks like this blameless word has been pressed into service to describe something there's not a good word for: the body language, facial expressions, and vocal tone that conveys a person is comfortable with themselves and their place in the world, that they aren't conflicted about what they are feeling, and they don't much care what anyone else thinks of them. When homo authenticus says something, he says it like he means it. What's authentic or genuine about him is not so much his life story as his emotional expression."

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