'Unless You Re Oprah'

Many people throughout their lives are afraid to be who they are. They are afraid society will judge them for being different, which in return, leads to people feeling like they cannot fit into the society around them. It makes them feel like they are an outcast for wanting to live differently and for expressing different views than what others might consider to be the “social norm”.
In the article ‘Unless you’re Oprah’ written by Adam grant, focuses on authenticity, which is defined as erasing the gap between what you firmly believe in and what you reveal to the outside world. Grant, mentions that for most people “be yourself” is essentially a terrible advice you can tell someone in a certain situation. This is because It can cause a lot of …show more content…
McMahan even if someone has the personality of authenticity or not, people will still get that negative judgement from their surroundings, no matter what type of circumstances they are in or in other cases, want to receive. In the textbook, it mentions that people have multiple of identities when sharing a relationship with one another. In other words, people tend to act one way around their friends and a completely different way around their relatives, professors and bosses to have that authoritative figures. While ‘Unless you’re Oprah’ discusses that even if people were to have an authentic behavior by being themselves, society will somehow reject or give a negative judgement about who they are. The texts also demonstrate that the majority of the society does not have an authentic behavior. Instead, people prefer to play the role of attitude of reflection, in which they think about how he/she looks in other people’s eyes. In addition, having the role of authentic is a difficult challenge in today’s society, it is because everyone wants to have that positive altercation and connection with a certain individual or a group of friends, so society will take the easy way out and have a performative self of actions, in which people have a front region and a back region. Grant also stated that authenticity can also have high or low self-monitors, which means a personality trait that refers to an ability to regulate behavior to accommodate social situations. He also gave an example in which, Cynthia Danaher had announced to her employees that the job was ‘scary’ and the she ‘needed help’. This caused her group to lose confidence in her initially. In addition to the example, it is important when or when not show your true self and that is how it is always going to