"Fake it till you make it"

It's time for a new blog. Invariably your author comes out with a cypher for a title. He would like to say "Not so.".

In this age driven by new technology and understandings we are more aware than ever before of the human condition. We have previously unheard of advantages at our disposal to capitalise upon it's weaknesses, and subvert it's defences. In a recent article on emotion sensing glasses on New Scientist it was found that in minute changes to a persons face during conversation, the true feelings going through their minds at the time were laid bare. Such technology renders a person's façade transparent, despite their efforts to cover it up their emotions with language and mannerisms.(See http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128191.600-specs-that-see-right-through-you.html?full=true)

I wonder what would happen if you put these glasses to the test versus a highly skilled method actor. Years of experience in living life in front of an audience/camera for all intents and purposes portraying as well as FEELING the emotion they act.

Many method actors also face issues, at times their personality affects their acting and vice versa. In spending so much time inhabiting a different personality are there structural effects on the brain? Because of this forced concentration on subversion of existing personality is the actor BECOMING the character?

Known as cerebral plasticity, and when put to good use, we can train ourselves to be better at things like memory or perception, and in turn our minds and the physical brain that supports it change.

This is also true of perceived negative effects, that if I were to live hastily and without thinking my brain would adapt to this level of activity, and conversely if I were to act intelligently I would gradually be better at decision making and situational understanding.

Are some people brains faster in this change or is everyone's brains able to change, albeit at the same rate?

"Fake it till you make it" identifies a "self fulfilling prophecy" that by acting in such a way for long enough there is a trend that in acting a certain way you are training yourself to be that certain way.

Similar to my previous posts, and in quotes I like to keep around mental sovereignty and positive self talk or mental lucidity I would like readers to know that everything inside your mind is true - and the more that this truth stamps out it's place as part of you the more control you have over yourself. Willpower is something that comes with practice, that when you feel momentum behind you pushing you onwards, keep going. It will take you places and before you know it you're somewhere. Rather than nowhere.

Also, the closer to the speed of light you get the less you are affected by time. So when you have a busy day and before you know it you've reached the end of the day, you have actually travelled through time faster. Not a huge amount.

Anyway, you have all the weapons you need. Now fight.