In the workplace, "do yourself" and "smooth" will not necessarily conflict with each other, the two can **** exist. I'm not sure if it's a good idea to be a good person, but I think it's a good idea to be a good person.
I know a lot of good sales, for people are particularly smooth. There is almost nothing they can't handle, and they can't make good connections.
But, looking at their circle of friends, and feel that they are particularly have their own life. For example, my cousin, if you don't know her, you'd think she's a smooth, worldly saleswoman.
But those who know her, know that she is a literary young woman who likes to travel all over the world. While earning money and using her vacation time to run around the world, she has a clear separation between work and life. She can be a smooth person when it comes to work. To deal with life, she is a literary young woman.
So, being yourself and being smooth will not conflict. It just depends on how you yourself deal with work and life. If you can't separate work and life well, then you have to choose to be yourself or become a mellow person.
There is a very typical representative of being oneself in the entertainment circle, and this person is Park Shu. Park Shu is a very talented person, but he is not willing to be smooth, and chose to be himself, in a long time, Park Shu is no income, rely on borrowing money from friends to live, and rely on his wife to support him.
Park Shu, like Park Shu, is unable to balance the relationship between being himself and being smooth. He chose to be himself.
But most people don't have the talent that Park has. I think we need to compromise a small part of our selves before being smooth. That ego is the ego at work, which allows us to be better at what we do.
But we can still be ourselves outside of work. No matter who you are at work, after work, you can be whoever think you want to be.
Some people are doctors by day and nightclub princes by night. There are people who are group chairmen by day and square dance leader aunts by night.
By separating work and life, you can balance mellowing and being yourself.