When I am authentic to myself, success is inevitable.

Authenticity gets sold as a shortcut, which it isn't. Plenty of authentic people fail at things.

What's true is subtler: pretending is expensive. Every sentence deleted from an email because it sounded too much like you costs a little energy, and across years that's a real tax on a real life.

Being yourself guarantees nothing. It does make whatever you build worth living inside. Notice one place today where you edit yourself for no good reason, and try leaving it in.