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It's often the other way around... Many times, salespeople use different names on the phone than in real life.
I always assumed it was to make it more difficult for me to hunt down and kill cold callers.
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My name is.. my name is... my name is Slim Shady Edit: Don't know why the downvotes. Maybe the song 'all-solo-founders-please-stand-up' does not relate to as many of us as I thought.
Probably because this kind of comment fits better on reddit than here.
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How does that affect what I wrote? Actually, that's not exactly what the story contained. It said that John was the legal name, but it didn't say that Jake wasn't the legal name. That happens all the time, John Jake Johnson, for example.
> I heard her call him Jake (nowhere in his name legal name)
Anxiety-management tricks that I personally employ is to either refer to a group/class I find myself in as "we" or to use passive rather than active voice. The former I borrowed as a kid watching Spider Man 1994, where Brock/Venom symbiont calls themselves "we"; the latter is an inspiration from David Bohm's rheomode. Both shift the perspective from your ego to the environment that it is embedded into and is a part o…
I assumed this was to cultivate a sense of belonging or identity for their followers, but separating their performing-identity from their regular identity could have a lot to do with it as well.
This worked on our (then) 5 year old, who was shy on the soccer field but kicked it up a notch when we told her to be a dinosaur. Of course, this also resulted in her running around with t-rex arms and baring her teeth, so I guess you have to be careful which alter ego you adopt.
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What, John liked cold calls so much that he had to invent alter ego Jake, who didn't like cold calls, in order to get a girlfriend?
Few people in my family use their first and second name in different contexts (family/friends/work). Reasons probably vary. For my mum it just started that way when she was a kid. Family used her second name and when she started working people knew her by her first name.
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My name is.. my name is... my name is Slim Shady Edit: Don't know why the downvotes. Maybe the song 'all-solo-founders-please-stand-up' does not relate to as many of us as I thought.
Probably because this kind of comment fits better on reddit than here.
A lot of people are awful, so the definition you are given will be one you may not agree with and one that doesn't match reality.
A sort of sunk cost fallacy combines with an illusory truth effect to reinforce the narrative created about you.
Eventually it won't matter what you think about you, it will only matter what other people think about you.
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I always assumed it was to make it more difficult for me to hunt down and kill cold callers.
This is funny, but I think the real insidious reason is that it takes away the "saying your name" psychological advantage.