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Steve Martin on finding your authentic voice

WorkLife with Adam Grant

CHAPTER

The Importance of Impersonation

When I was struggling to learn to drive, the only way I could hold down my panic was to be my father. My father had been driving since he was 14. And I would literally sit there and intrude my father's self inside my own. So I think that the logic of impersonation is a much better way into, maybe it's paradoxical say, into authenticity.

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