On Authenticity AND Vulnerability.

Jen Xu
5 min readOct 18, 2020

I wanted to talk about these two items today because I feel like a lot of people equate these to each other. As long as you’re authentic, you’re vulnerable, right? Perhaps. But to really be both of these things I do think you need to make them discrete parts. As humans, showing weakness is pretty much the opposite of what anyone is supposed to do. It’s not a survival instinct because you have to be strong to survive.

While it still holds true in some cases that the strong survive and showing weakness is…a sign of weakness — in a lot of jobs now, especially in the…

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Jen Xu

Athletic trainer, PhD student, coffee lover. I write about fitness, mental health, being Asian-American, and personal growth.