Living up to your reputation.

It seems that you are feeling unsure if you can live up to other’s expectations of your person, as people tend to “hype you” a bit. Depending on the person, sometimes hype can be… An undersell.

Let’s take Britney Spears, for example. Super famous. Sells like crazy. People love her, but her mixer is using autotune like mad, and the voice sounds fake. You scoff at her because you’ve never heard her authentic voice. Then, one day, you do, and you’ll change your mind about her as a singer on the spot.

We all know that people’s public image is somewhat fake, whether that’s an everyday person or a celebrity. We KNOW that what people say about that person has a mixture of truth and falsehoods in it. Anybody who believes a person’s reputation tells everything there is to know about them is a fool, aren’t they?

Sometimes, people are pleasantly surprised… I’d say that MOST OFTEN, people are pleasantly surprised when they meet someone who is much talked about. The reason is that people tend not to START talking about a person without a wow factor. Nobody wants to BUILD AN UNDERSERVED REPUTATION for someone who doesn’t live up to it. Even if you can’t quite see what people see in you, you might just want to trust that if people keep saying “OMG OMG OMG” about you a lot, it’s probably for a good reason.

You may have problems if YOU have KNOWINGLY lied about what you’re capable of; THEN, you might have some trouble living up to it… But that’s not what this post is about.

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