In this chapter, I argue for an understanding of authentic living that builds on the strengths of the previously examined versions of existential authenticity, while editing or amending their more extravagant claims. I conclude by offering a revised rendering of authenticity, one requiring a person to reject the existence of an essential fixed self; to be suspicious of, but not automatically dismissive of dominant societal values; to deny that hedonistic comfort and personal security are the highest values; to respect both the value and limitations of reason; to recognize the need for faith; to act as if the person is free; to take responsibility for actions and avoid excuses; to confront the reality of the human condition, avoiding self-deception, spurning false necessity, and directly confronting mortality; to constitute the self through commitments, convictions, choices, and actions in social contexts; to affirm life through intense living; to be true to the self being constructed and to exude a measure of uniqueness; and to confront mortality as an ever-present possibility.