Authentic Personality: An Inspiring Human Profile
Authentic personality prioritizes healthy relationships. Genuine people are free from falsehood, free from prejudice and independent when they have to go their own way. They believe in mutual respect, the principle of reciprocity and values that face hypocrisy. These profiles stand out as authentic references capable of inspiring us, of motivating us to be better.
A couple of years ago, Forbes magazine published a very interesting work on this subject. It pointed out that emotional intelligence is nowadays a basic resource that allows us to find more satisfaction at the personal and professional levels. However, in this skill based on the world of emotions there is a small “trap”.
Emotional intelligence is not very useful without the authentic personality. This is something that we can see for example in business leaders. Often they are trained to have certain social skills such as positivity, empathy and emotional management but none of this manages to be truly noticeable at the organizational level. Something is not working properly.
The person who is deprived of this authentic dimension where self-reflection, transparency, sincerity and proximity rest will never succeed in promoting the human capital of a company. She will not know how to motivate, will not inspire confidence and will not create a professional climate in which her words and actions will awaken admiration or inspiration.
Authentic personality, is it born or obtained?
We know there is no shortage of ways in our time to teach us to be emotionally intelligent. However, can we learn to be genuine people ? In fact, are we born with this type of profile or do we get it over time? We have to remember the fact that we are talking about a personality type as such. The repertoire of attitudes, thoughts, behavior and psychological dynamics is therefore the result of various factors.
So, as geneticist Dean Hamer tells us, we must always take into account certain biological components. For example , we know that a gene is responsible for regulating the amount of dopamine that is released in the nucleus accumbens of the brain. This would be responsible for the fact that we are “genetically” oriented more towards motivation and the search for satisfying experiences, and also of our more or less important capacity to be happy.
In fact, the educational factors, the socio-cultural context and our experience have a direct weight. Personality is like a fabulous sculpture created from a material of more or less good quality. To this sculpture, we add other complements, other techniques to highlight the shape, every corner, every detail.
One can therefore come into the world with a predefined authentic personality. However, with will, open-mindedness and adequate strategies we can smooth things over and fill in the gaps in order to make our psychological garden conform, to make it stronger, more authentic and honest.
How to learn to be authentic?
Currently, there are no psychological or emotional dimensions that cannot be learned. Human beings are endowed with an immense (and sometimes devalued) capacity for change. There is always full responsibility in the individual for this personal improvement, so progress is possible. Let’s see by following the approaches to be taken to become an authentic person.
Practice sincerity
Practicing sincerity should be a habit, not a personal obligation. Nevertheless, this practice has delicate nuances.
- In the first place, the genuine personality takes time to realize its necessities. This promotes adequate inner work to get to know yourself better, to understand your limits and values.
- In addition, this type of person is careful when choosing what to communicate. He will use sincerity, but also respect. He is adept at expressing his reality in a positive way.
- On the other hand, the genuine personality does not try to convince anyone with his arguments. She presents her opinions in a straightforward manner, but does not need the opinions of others to know if she is right.
Internal motivation
Genuine and genuine people activate according to their ideals and beliefs. They do not need external approval and neither do they meet the expectations of others. Being genuine is actually also about developing a certain courage.
Emotional recovery skills
We are sometimes many to be blocked in the path of disappointments, errors, losses… These negative emotional universes that we do not wish to manage undoubtedly slow down our progress. The authentic personality, for its part, has developed an adequate capacity for resilience that allows it to accept these states, learn from them and recover to turn the page as quickly as possible.
Without fear of failure and vision of the future
Genuine people have within them a compass and a road map that they build on the way. If one day they have to face a failure, they draw another path, they seek an alternative bridge. If at some point motivation drops, they stop and rest. The future is always there, filled with possibilities and hopes, those which push the inspiration of the authentic person and lead him towards his dreamed horizon.
Generosity and social conscience
Few profiles have a greater social conscience than these men and women showing us an unlimited authenticity. So if we really want to be like them, we can imitate them. Understand that we are not alone, that others are a part of us and that through respect, harmony and reciprocity impact our emotional well-being.
To achieve this, to reach this summit where authentic people live, nothing better than to put aside prejudices. Let us free ourselves from criticisms, oxidized visions, stereotypes, labels which objectify people. Let us open up to common experience to learn from each other.
Developing this type of social and emotional competence requires certain doses of courage, humility, heart, and personal integrity. Let’s put it into practice.
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