“Think about a map that truly and completely represents who you are, the full, unabridged map of you. The totality of you. The most complete and authentic you there is. Not just you as you currently understand yourself to be, but the you you could be if you but knew about these other aspects of yourself.”

“If we don’t stop to evaluate our experience—so we can identify and account for undo influences from the past—these influences might negatively affect what we currently experience, and then affect our subsequent actions. In other words, they can “throw us off our game.”

“If we view time as something that’s in short supply, and the time we do have as constantly slipping away, then it makes sense that we’d overperform to maximize the tiny bit that remains, before, of course, even that too disappears. “

“Because we each have a throughline to our own experience, we each possess what we need for an authentic life. You already have the key to discover what you seek: you don’t have to search for this key elsewhere or outside of yourself.”

“Today I want to talk about a key concept in our ability to protect who we are. It’s a tiny powerhouse of a concept, but it really underlies not only your capacity to protect yourself, but it plays a leading role in your ability to sustain your happiness, and ultimately, your freedom.”

“This thing of ‘just be real.’ I don't think it’s going to take us where we want to go. It’s also the complete opposite of what we talk about when we talk about being authentic in Chasing the Wild Authentic.”