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From Act II, Scene VII of As You Like It, Shakespeare asserts that “all the world is a stage and all the men and women, merely players.”
“Not believable.”
It is the two-word epitaph for every actor’s performance which seems dead-on-arrival. It is pronounced by critic and audience alike when the scene set before them lacks sincerity, legitimacy and heart.
Sometimes it is caused by the script being underplayed; often it’s a result of overacting. But somewhere along the line, the actor has failed to take the words that he or she has committed to memory and equally commit them to heart.
- The emotion is phony.
- The emotion is lacking.
- The emotion is pre-determined and therefore sits on the shelf too long, arriving stale.
There is a certain amount of emotional purity necessary to convey who we are to the world around us. When this is lacking, the jungle sense inside every mortal comes to the forefront, screaming “this is not real.”
So since the world is a stage and we are actors, what can we do to guarantee that our contribution is believable? Because long before we are valuable, we need to establish that we are as we say we are.
To gain this pure heart, you must:
1. Be the first person around you who is not afraid of sharing your feelings.
You can be selective. You can release it slowly–just as long as you’re forthcoming and not being “caught”–trapped in a web of lies.
2. Realize that your feelings are inescapable, yet they only gain the possibility of change when shared well.
No one is suggesting that there has to be an outpouring from the heart of every single sensation that happens from moment to moment, but when a reality exists, to deny it, mask it or reject it is to set yourself up for being exposed instead of controlling the update on your own situation.
3. Know that people can trust you because they are fully aware that you’re willing to be honest.
Without this kind of emotional purity, human beings spiral down. They end up in the basement of consideration, relegated to a position of worthlessness because they were unable to deliver what they advertised themselves to be.
Fear makes us doubt.
Doubt makes us defensive.
Defensiveness turns us into liars.
And all liars end up looking like fools.
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