Would an Alter Ego Help?

[Richey]

I read a story about a comedian who felt he was so boring in his own mind that his comedian alter egos helped him to charm people and get by alot more in certain situations that he felt having different personalities like a jeckle & hyde except without the good & evil .. ..

I also know a musician at my work that used to play different roles around people, a heavy metal drummer that would dress in R & B clothes and act, talk differently while talking to girls and then back to complete honesty around his friends and then differently again around authority types ... ..

I don't know whether this strays from being yourself as the person has chosen and adopted the personalities himself that he likes ..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyOT-UjNKWI&feature=related

Maria Bamford for instance ^^

 

[bleach]

I bet it would help a lot if you stuck with it.

 

[Ky]

I've wondered this aswell. I don't really know how to put it to good use though. I'm comfortable enough around complete strangers that I don't need an alter ego. And around those I know where I need an alter-ego, they know me well enough to know that I'm not being myself. So really, I don't know how that would work :roll:

 

[aj]

I think about this sometimes too, but not really to become a different person.

Tomorrow morning I'll walk into work, all the dreaming I've done over the weekend will be thrown away and I'll plop right back into the rut.

What I'd like to do is walk in as a different version of myself - looks the same, thinks the same, but can talk like anyone else would coming in in the morning and can actually have a bit of a conversation.

It's all mind over matter though.