The Art of Conversation: Change Your Life with Confident Communication

11Role Playing

We all behave differently with different people. You may play mad games with your children and suffer their jokes at your expense first thing in the morning, and then later stride confidently into the office as a powerful determined executive and play that role until the end of the working day. But if you stick to a limited role and leave too much of the real you at home, you severely limit the possibilities in your interactions and things get stuck.

Jack, head of an engineering company, lived quite a chaotic and unsatisfying personal life. He didn't believe in bringing his home self into the office, and thought it nobody's business ...