Is It ALWAYS a Good Idea to Be Yourself?  Brendan Fitzgerald talks about when being yourself can hold you back.

Sometimes, the habit of "being yourself" can give you expectations to live up to based on what those around you know about you.  While we want to become more, we often want to achieve it by staying true to ourselves, but that can be difficult.  Becoming more than what you are by definition means you can't just be yourself in the process.