Do not accept the roles that society foists on you. Re-create yourself by forging a new identity, one that commands attention and never bores the audience. Be the master of your own image rather than letting others define it for you. Incorporate dramatic devices into your public gestures and actions—your power will be enhanced and your character will seem larger than life.
3 Ways to Be The Consummate Chameleon
- You must learn to enlarge your actions through dramatic techniques such as surprise, suspense, the creation of sympathy, and symbolic identification.
- You must be constantly aware of your audience—of what will please them and what will bore them.
- You must arrange to place yourself at the centre, to command attention, and never to be upstaged at any cost.
Because of his own obsessive interest in drama, Julius Caesar was perhaps the first public figure to understand the vital link between power and theatre. He sublimated this interest by making himself an actor and director on the world stage. Even while dying, he kept his sense of drama. Drawing the top of his gown over his face, he let go of the clothes lower part so that it draped his legs, allowing him to the covered and decent. According to the Roman historian Suetonius, his final words to his old friend Brutus, who was about to deliver a second blow, were in Greek, and as if rehearsed for the end of a play: “You too, my child?”
Our culture despises being lied to and deceived while authenticity is heralded. Well, that’s what they say, and often what we say and what we do are two very different things. In order to excel in a particular field, you may have to morph your character to fit within the reality of your circumstances, as Dudevant did. Dudevant did not moan and complain about the lack of women’s rights within her society, she did not let the current state of her reality dissuade her from pursuing her ambitions. Instead, she conformed to the cliche, “if you can’t beat them, join them”. In order to excel in some area’s, you must mould your character and adapt. It’s not about creating a “fake persona” and trying to harm or be destructive to your environment. It’s about understanding the current state of culture and becoming a chameleon to your circumstances.
Many may believe we have never lived in a time that is so “fake” and “disingenuous” with an ever-growing society of “fake entrepreneurs” and ‘20 page marketing click funnels’ trying to pursue us to believe the dream and buy the product. The internet has given everyone a platform to communicate and mould their own unique character. Some will try and manipulate and adopt a nefarious attitude with the intent to take, other’s will forge new identities in an effort to give themselves the opportunity to be virtues and give. It’s up to you to be able to tell the difference and conversely pick who you want to be.
Your new identity will protect you from the world precisely because it is not ‘you’; it is a costume you put on and take off
Re-create yourself with a powerful new image that stands out and draws attention, rather than letting others define you. Then change your appearance and emotions to suit the occasion, or stage riveting dramas as backdrops for your actions.
