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Authenticity
"Salvator Mundi" sold for a record-breaking $450 million in 2017, but is it really as valuable as people were led to believe?
Successful forgers are remembered as great conmen, not artists. This is strange, considering their forgeries fooled even the most seasoned critics.
The Metaverse could be the most dangerous tool of persuasion humanity has ever created.
Just a small gesture or a thoughtful comment can often alter a situation, or people’s perceptions of it, in ways that relieve tensions and make them feel appreciated and included.
Brands manufacture meaning through consensus; people must strive to create their own.
Studies show that feelings of ease and comfort in a given situation are tied to feelings of authenticity.
If you want to be an authentic person, embrace reality. Don't try to clamber your way up Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
Jean Paul Sartre summed up the existentialist idea of "bad faith" through a waiter who acted a bit too much like a waiter.
People can lose their authentic selves when they don't honestly confront life's potential, according to the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard.
Role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons offer a valuable insight: Life is about shifting labels.
The decades-long conflict is best understood not through secondhand accounts of historians, but the primary accounts of people who actually experienced it.