Authenticity is easier with good biomechanics

Timothée Chalamet during the recent NBA Finals was a great example of this

I’m a big Knicks fan and I just caught the game 5 this morning when I woke up.

It was yet another terrific come-from-behind victory to win the NBA finals.

It was the first time they’d won since 1973 (3 years before I was born).

And yet the Knicks were the reason I got into basketball back around 1988 when I was around 11 years old. That was the time of Patrick Ewing, Charles Oakley and Mark Jackson. And then a few years later came folks like John Starks.

I was a huge fan back then and would try to catch almost every game on tv.

But for many years after that time I hadn’t been that into basketball till this season….

…this year I tried to catch almost every Knicks game on Youtube (at least the highlights). It was a team that seemed to have something special about them again (like the days when they had Ewing & Starks).

Anyway, i’m not gonna bore you by rambling on about the Knicks, but watching the finals did give me the inspiration for today’s article, which is about ‘authenticity’.

You see there were tons of stars courtside watching the Knicks like Adam Sandler, Taylor Swift, Kylie Jenner, Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, Jerry Seinfeld, etc.

But there was one person who stood out as being far more authentically passionate than anyone else. By a lot.

And that was Timothée Chalamet (the acting star who has done films like Dune, Wonka and many more.

The reason for that in my view… is that the guy has very solid biomechanics, which allows him to come off very authentic naturally.

First let’s see Timothée in action

When you see Timothée he always gives off this authentic, edgy vibe.

Like he’s just naturally passionate and fearless.

For example watch the video of him above in the Finals where he starts yelling at some Knicks fans and then runs in and hugs them. How many celebrities do you know could pull that off and make it look authentic?

Not many is the answer.

In fact I can’t think of one off the top of my head. They would all look fake.

But for Timothée… if you follow him a bit off camera you see that he is pretty much always this same edgy, authentic guy.

And he doesn’t need alcohol or drugs to pull it off. It’s just him.

Here’s another video above where he ripped off his shirt after game 4 and then grabbed the ET channel’s microphone.

The guy has something about him that I bet even most top celebrities are jealous of. He’s just ‘real’ in a way that most of them cannot be.

Timothy’s authenticity allows him to pull off things most others can’t

There are many actors that can play many different personalities when they are on camera. Folks like Leonardo Dicaprio come to mind.

But off camera…. Dicaprio does not come off that edgy or passionate.

At least for many years.

When he was young though… I actually do think young Leo had it.

Leo lost it pretty early in his adult life though (in my view). As his biomechanics took a turn for the worse.

Whereas Chalamet seems to be retaining his much better (and longer).

And it’s what allows him to do things most actors would never even consider. Like showing up in this rap video below.

You can tell he’s passionate about the music and it’s kind of like he belongs in this video.

He pulls it off.

He’s “authentic” even in unusual and difficult situations.

Clav is also an example to a lesser extent

Someone asked me a little while back why I thought Clav has blown up recently.

And I didn’t hesitate to answer.

It’s very simple… the guy has pretty solid biomechanics naturally and so he comes off authentic.

I (and most people) probably don’t agree with what he is saying… but he doesn’t come off fake when he says it. Whereas a lot of these other looksmaxxing influencers just don’t have that same level of authenticity (they seem more scripted and less interesting).

And quite often Clav’s put in situations that most people would not feel comfortable in. I’ve seen quite a number of clips where someone is hostile towards him and he pretty much always keeps his cool and does not back down.

So while i’m not a fan… I can understand why his fans watch him.

For many of them he probably represents the version of themselves they would ‘like to be’. The ballsy one that speaks his mind even when the people around him are likely going to react negatively to it.

But i do think Clav will eventually mess it up by doing something artificial (I heard he has started aligners) and at some point he’ll lose his authenticity and his newfound ‘stardom’ will probably depart him just as fast as it came.

Because to have staying power in this game of authenticity… you need to know how to keep your biomechanics tight. And he’s got all the wrong ideas about how that works.

My ‘authenticity’ has improved consistently the last few years

So how did I arrive at these conclusions about the connection between authenticity and biomechanics?

Simple. I experienced them myself.

In the years when I was not doing well my ‘authenticity’ would vanish. I’d be in my head when i was around people. Thinking about what they wanted to hear. Thinking about how I wanted them to like me.

This almost never happens to me anymore. Simply because my biomechanics has improved (ie. i made no other effort).

I almost never have any internal dialogue in my head when I’m talking to new people and so i come off more authentic.

In part because when you’re not in your own head it allows you to actually listen to what they are saying and react to it.

So conversations feel more natural and interesting.

Biomechanics is more than just aesthetics

I’ve been observing this connection between biomechanics and authenticity for a number of years already.

And to me it’s obvious.

But it’s important to realize that biomechanics is not the same as physical attractiveness even though they do generally correlate.

So it’s not that all better looking people are more authentic. That is obviously not always the case with certain good looking celebrities who come off pretty fake.

Rather for me biomechanics is not just about the physical, it is also about function. And authenticity is one of those invisible signals that I’m always paying attention to in order to determine how good the person’s biomechanics really are.

If they’re stuck in their head and reacting slow… i know that something is likely not biomechanically correct even though things look relatively good from the outside.

Closing thoughts

Authenticity is considered this natural talent in society today.

It helps you in pretty much anything you do. Acting being one of them.

Which is probably why Timothée Chalamet has risen from very humble beginnings to being considered one of the top 100 actors today.

But in my experience it has almost nothing to do with talent and everything to do with biomechanics.

If you wanna come off ‘authentic’ you need to fix your brain so it reacts passionately and naturally. You cannot be stuck in your own head.

And the way you do that…. is you fix the structure that houses that brain (ie. the skull) via these biomechanics that I talk about.

You see… with time as you do this process you’ll learn that good biomechanics gives you an entire arsenal of weapons that you start to wield better and better.

Which gives you all kinds of advantages in this game we call ‘life’.