The document “The Art of Being yourself” (“The Art of Being Yourself” at TEDxMiltonKeynesWomen, Speaker : Caroline McHugh,YouTube, Tedx Talks, duration : 26 min 23 sec, 15 Feb. 2013, youtu.be/veEQQ-N9xWU) is a Tedx Talks’ intervention by Caroline McHugh, the founder and CEO of IDEOLOGY. Her motivational speech is focused on how to be oneself and the different stage of self-awareness. She articulates her intervention in two parts, the first one being the identification of what being oneself is and secondly how she perceives the different “selves”.
First of all, Caroline McHugh starts her speech with the statement that what we each see in our mirrors isn’t what others see of us. Indeed, she developed the notion of a True Mirror (invented …show more content…
She states that each and everyone of us should be aiming at being singular and not to seek ressemblance with others.
Secondly, she tackles the idea of being oneself with the common saying :”Just be yourself”, emphasizing the common adverb “just”. The use of such an adverb hint to the idea that being oneself is considered a simple task and she also adds that the recipient of that saying had not thought of it.
In addition, she explains that the two times in our lives when we are the most ourselves are when we are very young, before the birth of consciousness, and when we are old as with time passing by we become less and less compromising and more and more honest and authentic.
As for the time between those two stages of life, Caroline McHugh has developed what she calls the “I complex” with the notion of superiority, inferiority and interiority (one of her made-up words). This last notion is uncomparative and unrelative. For her, when we reach this way of being, there is no competition, no one we could compare ourselves to. Each and every one of us is an unique and singular being. For the speaker, we shouldn’t just be defined by our relations to …show more content…
To put it simply what one thinks of oneself either in a good way or a belittling way. Caroline McHugh advocates for a stability of the relationship we have with ourself, a “inner state of mind that’s impervious”, impervious to the bad or good experiences. We have to see the temporality of what we are living either it’s good or bad. She also links this state of mind to humility and gave the following definition of it (given to her by Baroness Campbell who runs UK Sport) : “humility is not thinking less of yourself, humility is thinking about yourself less”. With this in mind, she explains through her personal experience that once you’ve shifted the attention from you to others, once you’ve stopped thinking about you as the center of attention and put the others as the center of your attention, you have reached that
First of all, Caroline McHugh starts her speech with the statement that what we each see in our mirrors isn’t what others see of us. Indeed, she developed the notion of a True Mirror (invented …show more content…
She states that each and everyone of us should be aiming at being singular and not to seek ressemblance with others.
Secondly, she tackles the idea of being oneself with the common saying :”Just be yourself”, emphasizing the common adverb “just”. The use of such an adverb hint to the idea that being oneself is considered a simple task and she also adds that the recipient of that saying had not thought of it.
In addition, she explains that the two times in our lives when we are the most ourselves are when we are very young, before the birth of consciousness, and when we are old as with time passing by we become less and less compromising and more and more honest and authentic.
As for the time between those two stages of life, Caroline McHugh has developed what she calls the “I complex” with the notion of superiority, inferiority and interiority (one of her made-up words). This last notion is uncomparative and unrelative. For her, when we reach this way of being, there is no competition, no one we could compare ourselves to. Each and every one of us is an unique and singular being. For the speaker, we shouldn’t just be defined by our relations to …show more content…
To put it simply what one thinks of oneself either in a good way or a belittling way. Caroline McHugh advocates for a stability of the relationship we have with ourself, a “inner state of mind that’s impervious”, impervious to the bad or good experiences. We have to see the temporality of what we are living either it’s good or bad. She also links this state of mind to humility and gave the following definition of it (given to her by Baroness Campbell who runs UK Sport) : “humility is not thinking less of yourself, humility is thinking about yourself less”. With this in mind, she explains through her personal experience that once you’ve shifted the attention from you to others, once you’ve stopped thinking about you as the center of attention and put the others as the center of your attention, you have reached that