When they are performing, actors are told to “be authentic”. After all, the key to great acting is the ability to bring a character to life by tapping into their own personality, quirks, experiences, and emotions. However, the truth is, giving an authentic performance is tied to being an authentic person.
In this blog, we’ll help you to understand how you can embrace your weirdness instead of trying to hide it. After all, perhaps that unique individual with all those quirks is the real you. Are you willing to say yes to being yourself?
Dangerous But Necessary
Unfortunately, it seems like being yourself in today’s society is a dangerous, but necessary liability. After all, when you are being yourself, you risk someone actually seeing who you really are. This might mean they’ll make fun of you or reject you. On the other hand, they might just accept you.
When we try to blend in and have people see us as “normal”, we’re actually rejecting our true selves. When we reject ourselves, that means that no one else can because we’re not bringing that person into the open.
Instead of asking what might go wrong if we unleash our uniqueness upon the world, we need to think about what might go right. After all, weirdness leads us to who we actually are. When we are unapologetically true to who we are, then we inspire others. No one has ever been inspired by someone who was 100% normal because those people blend into the background.
3 Steps to Embrace Your Weirdness
If you are ready to embrace your weirdness, there are three steps that you must follow:
Embrace discomfort- be willing to embrace the discomfort that comes with being authentic
Find purpose in pain- find the blessings within your curse
Amuse yourself- the purpose of life is to find ways to amuse yourself, when you’re interested in what you are doing, it helps set you up to embrace your weirdness
You must keep in mind that turning on your weirdness is nothing like flipping a switch- but a moment-to-moment choice along your life journey. It begins with an awareness that you do have a choice. You can get out of the trap of being “normal” and be more authentic to yourself.
Hopefully, these steps will help you learn to embrace your weirdness. After all, you need to say yes to being yourself.
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