When you walk into a high-stakes meeting, are you being yourself or performing a version of yourself you think will win?
If everyone around you is wearing a mask, how would you ever know who you are actually dealing with?
Is the «professional you» a lie, or just a smarter edit of the real thing?
If you have played a role long enough, at what point does the performance become the person?
Think about the last time you adjusted your behavior to impress someone. Was that authenticity or strategy?
For our Watch & Talk sessions, this video sparks discussion around professional identity, workplace performance, self-presentation, authenticity, and interpersonal trust.
This is one of those topics that sounds philosophical until it gets uncomfortably personal.
Watch the video here (but it’s always more interesting to talk about it 😉):
