<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Shame produces a false self by teaching a person... > Shame produces a false self by teaching a person to perform acceptability while hiding the energies that still organize behavior. Honest self-observation replaces performance with governable reality. **Source:** [[livestreams/Radical Self-Acceptance and Expanding the Opposite - Workbook|Radical Self-Acceptance and Expanding the Opposite]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Shame produces a false self by teaching a person to perform acceptability while hiding the energies that still organize behavior. Honest self-observation replaces performance with governable reality.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-shame-produces-false-performance-governable-reality ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->