Seeking Authenticity: Essays and Stories on Values and Travels
Language: English
Published by Cowabunga Books, 2021
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Seeking Authenticity provides reflection, insight, and humor, packaged into a series of essays and short stories. The essays integrate philosophy from the past and produce a spark for contemplation over timeless fundamental values. This writing aims to interrogate and explore an eminent buzzword of our era: Authenticity.Do you spend your time well? Are you honest? Grateful? Resilient? Responsible? Do you have purpose? How do these questions and ideas lead to authenticity in your own life? Explorations into these values are expressed in parallel with the story of a near year-long surfing and hiking adventure from British Columbia, Canada to Queensland, Australia, with stops down the West Coast of the United States and Hawaii. These stories encompass sometimes poetic, sometimes sarcastic, yet always honest, expression.
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- Title
- Seeking Authenticity: Essays and Stories on Values and Travels
- Author
- Flint Mitchell
- Publisher
- Cowabunga Books
- Publication year
- 2021
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1737728508
- ISBN 13
- 9781737728504
Have you ever stopped to ask yourself:
Why am I doing this?
When you find yourself frustrated from endless social media scrolling …
When you feel as though your actions don’t reflect the person you want to (and could!) be …
When you’re disheartened by your current path in life and want to meet the challenge of your potential …
Sometimes all you need is a change in perspective.
Initially written as a declaration intended for an audience of one—following in the footsteps of former Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius who journaled the meditations that would encapsulate Stoic philosophy—Seeking Authenticity dives into what it means to live an authentic life guided by action and driven to adventure.
Flint Mitchell interlaces philosophical principles with personal accounts from his year-long surfing and hiking adventure from Canada to Australia. Through sometimes poetic, sometimes sarcastic, yet always honest expression, Flint helps you reorient your current life toward your ideal one through your most powerful perspective: the lens of your values.
Seeking Authenticity calls you to reflect on:
- Who you are and what you stand for
- If your actions are genuinely tied to your intentions
- The strength of the connections you form with your loved ones
- The positive or negative habits impacting your life
- How resilient you are toward conflict, big or small
- Where your current value system is taking you and what a future with those values looks like
Seeking Authenticity began as a modern stoic’s journal dedicated to distilling the time-tested ideas of some of the greatest literary figures of the past several centuries into actionable information. Despite initial skepticism of his friends and confidants' desire for these essays and narratives to be formally published, Flint paid beta readers to offer explicitly honest feedback.
One of the readers responded: “This book positively changed my life. These essays are amazing… and I truly believe that I should be the one paying YOU for letting me read them.” And then he refunded Flint’s money. This was the spark that catapulted this modern day curation of timeless wisdom and pithy insights into a published format, which has already been proven to impact lives and is waiting for you to dive into.
If you like your truth sandwich with a side of humor, if you enjoy the musings of Viktor Frankl, Ralph Waldo Emerson, or David Goggins, or if you are distressed about the amount of time you spend doing inconsequential bullshit, then this book will help you steer away from anything you deem trivial, focus on your ambitions, and set yourself on a path toward meaning.
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