Are you a Great Actor? Do You Really Know the Roles You are Playing Lately?

Eric Stone
6 min readAug 9, 2020

The roles we play impact and influence everyone around us. Being aware requires time and patience in order to see what is really going on.

Subtle or grossly obvious to others or not, the action paths we take are often embedded in our subconscious. After all, being aware requires time and patience in order to see what is really going on. That’s true for everything like politics, parenting, career, self-acceptance, confidence, etc.

However, we are human beings in a clearly human and extremely fragile world. It means we are all evaluated, scrutinised, and interpreted based on how we present and conduct ourselves in private, professional, public and social circles alike. I like to call it role-playing because admittedly or not, we are always playing a role.

We embody these roles more imperceptibly than realised: husband, wife, friend, employee, executive, head of department, political activist, columnist, waiter, talk show guest, business owner, TV host, president, sister, brother, manager, lover, mistress, client, customer, only child, grand father, grand mother, etc.

I’d like to bring to your attention that in order to be valid and be credible, the roles we play need to be fully embodied i.e. acted out. The second and more important point is…

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Eric Stone

In personal growth & development, great outcomes come from authentic shifts in perspective! These essays aim to catalyze awareness and empower creative thinking