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Rick Warren - "Wearing a mask wears you out. Faking it is fatiguing. The most exhausting activity is pretending to be who you know you aren't." · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  I'm your host, Andrew McGivern, and this episode is brought to
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  app, But just to make it easy, I've left a link for you in the
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  show notes. Today's quote comes from Rick
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  Warren, pastor, author and the man behind The Purpose Driven
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  Life, one of the best selling non fiction books ever written.
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  He once said wearing a mask wears you out.
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  Faking it is fatiguing. The most exhausting activity is
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  pretending to be who you know you aren't.
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  Three sentences, each one building on the last.
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  And by the time you reach that final line, the most exhausting
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  activity, you feel it somewhere deep.
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  Because almost everyone knows exactly what he's talking about.
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  Here's the thing about masks. Put them on for understandable
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  reasons. We want to be light.
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  We want to fit in. We want to project confidence
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  when we feel uncertain, calm when we feel anxious, and
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  successful when we're struggling.
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  The mask feels like protection, And in the short term, it is.
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  But Warren is pointing at the hidden cost.
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  Maintaining a version of yourself that isn't true
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  requires constant, unrelenting effort.
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  Every interaction becomes a performance.
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  Every conversation requires monitoring.
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  Am I saying the right thing? Showing the right face?
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  Keeping the story consistent? When you wear a mask for long
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  enough, it becomes difficult to breathe.
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  Your whole being feels like it's trying to escape from the
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  costume. And here's the paradox.
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  The mask is supposed to make things easier.
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  Instead, it makes everything harder.
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  Because authenticity, simply being who you actually are,
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  requires no maintenance at all. You don't have to remember what
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  you said. You don't have to manage what
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  people see, you just show up as yourself and let that be enough.
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  The exhaustion Warren is describing is not physical, it's
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  the deep bone level fatigue that comes from the gap between who
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  you are and who you're pretending to be.
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  The wider that gap gets, the heavier you carry it.
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  So here's the question, What mask are you wearing right now
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  that's costing you more than you realize?
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  Because the energy you're spending maintaining it, that's
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  energy that belongs to you. It could be going into something
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  that actually matters, something that actually moves your life
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  forward. Take that mask off because the
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  most rested, most energized, most alive version of you has
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  always been the real one. That's it for today.
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  I'm Andrew McGivern, signing off for now, but I'll be back
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  tomorrow. Same pod time, same pod station
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  with another daily quote.