Reflect on the experience of meeting someone for the first time and feeling an immediate connection. 回想一下第一次和某人见面时那种相见恨晚的感觉，

What was it about this person that you found attractive? 你被他哪些地方吸引了呢？

Think of a salesperson you really liked. 想想某个你真正喜欢的销售员，

Did this person try to impress you or was he or she a sincere, quality person who took the time to get to know you and understand your needs? 他有没有努力给你留下深刻印象？他/她是个真诚的人吗？他/她是否花时间了解了你，明白了你的需求？

My guess is that in both situations, the person you connected with was being genuine or authentic. 我猜这两种情况下你遇到的人都是真诚的。

Authenticity is the degree to which one is true to one's own personality, spirit, or character, despite outside pressures. It's living with integrity. 真诚是指一个人忽视外界压力，对自己人格，精神和性格的忠诚度，与诚实相同。

Being authentic means you are being faithful to internal values rather than external ideas from the world. 真诚意味着你忠诚于自身而非外界价值观。

When you put on a mask to please others, you are being false to yourself. 当你虚假示人以讨好别人时，你也是在背叛自己。

Nathaniel Hawthorne warns us about this: "No man can, for any considerable time, wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which is the true one." 美国作家纳撒尼尔·霍桑告诫我们："没人能在任何一段时期里,面对自己时戴一副面具,在别人面前又摆出另一副嘴脸的同时,不会因为最终分辨不出哪个才是真实的自己而迷失的."

To help us clearly understand the concept of authenticity, let's explore some of the adjectives and attributes used to describe an authentic man or woman: 为了更好理解真诚的含义，我们用一些形容词和限定词来描述真诚的人，

sincere, genuine, believable, vulnerable, factual, reliable, transparent, loving, caring, real, truthful, and faithful. 如真诚的，真实的，可信的，脆弱的，可靠的，坦率的，忠诚的，有同情心的等等。