For a culture as obsessed with achievement as ours is, you’d think we’d be really good at processing and internalizing our successes along the way.

I’m here to tell you otherwise: We —at least here in the U.S.—are gawd awful at processing our successes. I see it all the time in my work with extremely high achievers—men and women alike. They are at the top of their game professionally, but struggle to stand up in front of an audience and speak their truth from a place of authenticity, energy and conviction.

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This little piece of wisdom is often repeated by my father. When I was growing up, he used it in the context of child rearing, but as I became an adult, I realized that this phrase is every bit as relevant to our interactions with grown ups as it is to parenting kids.

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In Sunday’s New York Times, Adam Grant contributed a great article entitled,Unless You’re Oprah, ‘Be Yourself’ Is Terrible Advice.” In it, he took aim at a concept that has become quite fashionable as of late: Authenticity.

Grant describes the danger of being “authentic” at all times, and how it can lead to blurting out all manner of inappropriate things to people, and how your life will come to a screeching halt if you let authenticity have free reign over your mouth.

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