LivinGology

The Many You-s

Most of us have more than one face. Because most of us have more than one role to play. Being a loving wife and mother often requires a different set of behavioural models and characteristics than being good at playing at the stock exchange. The difference between the Working You and the Family You is the most obvious one. But have you noticed that many times you behave differently towards each person you meet and talk to? It is most tangible when you meet two or more different friends of yours who didn't know 
each other before. Then you start looking for a way to get along with all of them and be yourself at the same time somehow. But is there really one Yourself since yourself changes according to the situation? These two are not opposites actually. The most recent definitions of intelligence say it is the capability of being able to adapt to many different situations and transfer your previous experience in the new situation in a way it serves you in a novel 
adaptive way. So, the more You s you have, the smarter you are. It is the same with the different roles we play in our lives. 
The more roles we are able to maintain, the more adaptive and up-to-date we are. But does that really bring value and quality to our lives? Actually the growing number of
roles and behavioural models is an answer to continuing shrinkage of time we experience. We
just have to do many things at once because otherwise we fall behind the others. For some activities, like driving it is ok, as they become automatized with time but how about talking to several different people at once? This one 
requires more depth and concentration but we do it anyway. And we continue multipling ourselves. Actually people have always had to deal with combining their diverse roles but the difference now is that we not only have to find ways to combine them, but manage to play them simultaneously. Will that make us even more adaptive and intelligent or just lead to lost of our real identity and perception of time and reality is ahead of us to find out.