Do you believe in the multiple persona approach? Another way of asking this question is: do you have a work face, a home face, a friend face, a play face, etc.? To be honest, I’ve never seen the need for or relevance of this approach though I know many people do. However, I don’t know or understand the ‘why’ of having multiple persona’s. Doesn’t it get dreadfully confusing as to who you’re suppose to be? And I am not talking about being one-dimensional – you aren’t but you can be a unified whole.
I may be multi-faceted and I may be a walking conundrum and/or an oxymoron of the highest degree but essentially – what you see… is, regardless of the setting. I may not be a ‘pun’ as much as I am puzzling, sometimes even to myself. (Pun and puzzle are two of the definitions of conundrum.) I don’t remember consciously trying to be consistent but that is an admirable accomplishment. But if you follow the multiple persona’s approach, you must have a reason to do this… yes? But how can you possibly be consistent?
So what’s the purpose, the benefit for this ‘behavior’? Compartmentalizing? And the purpose for this is…? To me it smacks of a juggling act where you are trying to keep those relevant parts of you working together but related to only one aspect of who you are and what you are involved with – but what do you do with all the rest? I always return to the ‘why’ of the questions. Since it would be my contention that you are a multi-faceted composition, why try to keep them separate?
To me it would seem that the depth and breadth of who you are is refined, enhanced when there is an integration of all of you. You are far more than simply the sum of your parts and when you attempt to keep the different ‘parts’ separate you aren’t allowing for the full expression. Each brings something unique to every decision, every interaction.
