the myth of authenticity.

Your identity is what your nervous system predicts to be safe in any given moment based on all available data, therefore your nervous system only allows behaviour that matches what these neuro circuits deem as safe, its important to note that this factor of safety often is metaphorical, ego based, identity level safety, meaning transformation is only possible by updating your nervous systems software, in simple terms, taking action that threatens this metaphorical safety and giving your nervous system evidence that this action is not going to kill you to progressively desensitize you to that behaviour for it to be “authentic”