In this life, everything is a performance.
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People who are not trained actors tend to improvise poorly when asked to do an impromptu performance in front of a hostile audience.
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Crucially, though, you don't need to be dishonest to engage in bad acting. It's enough to simply not know how to act on a scene.
What do I do with my hands? What words do I say? Where do I look? How do I breathe?
There are plenty of online writing-equivalents of these problems.
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And an inability to act naturally in full knowledge that you are being watched.
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People do that all the time for far lower position, though?
You think the cashier at your local grocery store gives a shit if you "have a good day"?
It's a commonplace occurrence when doing someone else's wage labor is the main way people stay alive in our societies.
There are ways to get around it, but most of us simply do not know how.
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Ah, I lost track. I have 0 sympathy for influencers under any circumstances.