The Role You Were Born to Play
Think of some of the most iconic roles in cinematic history.
- Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa in Rocky.
- Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia in Star Wars
- Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone in The Godfather.
- Samuel L. Jackson as Jules Winnfield in Pulp Fiction.
- Sigourney Weaver as Ripley in Alien.
- Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump.
You couldn’t possibly imagine any other actor or actress playing those roles. No one else could have pulled it off quite like they did. They absolutely owned their characters.
It is like they were born to play those roles.
You are no different.
You have a role you were born to play. A role that no other human being on the face of the earth could ever play.
Yourself.
Naval Ravikant teaches us that: “The way to escape competition is to just be authentic to yourself”. The only way you can reach your full potential is to be your unabashedly authentic self.
The world doesn’t need a watered-down version of someone else. Or a cobbled-together mish-mash of a bunch of other people.
We need you.
Stop copying. Stop imitating. Stop trying to be what you think others want you to be.
The people you are trying to “be” someone for? That you are trying to impress? They are trying to impress someone else. Who is trying to impress someone else. And on, and on, and on.
Opt-out of that dance. Be yourself. You do you.
Own the role you were born to play.
