Role Playing!

Role Playing got be totally intrigued. The whole concept kind of freaked me out. 

We all know about Phillip Zembardo and the Stanford Prison Experiment.  We all know that it was proven very quickly that people can begin to actually feel and do things like the thing they are acting out, even when they know they are acting. 

If you speak to mostly any actor, they would most likely say that when they are acting in a movie it is like there whole life becomes that character. In order to truly play the role you are acting well, you have to actually feel like that person.

I was thinking about this whole concept and brought it to a whole other level. What if everything we do, work, play, study is all really role playing. We start of thrown into a school and we are told how to act and what to do. We are like actors, but then it becomes who we are. We do not have to think twice about how to act or what to do, because it is us, we becomes  student. Then slowly through out life it is all about first just role playing. Role playing at your job. Role playing when you get married. Role playing when you have kids. It eventually turns into who we are. 

So then maybe you can throw anybody into any situation and they will eventually be fine. If someone who thinks they are unkabable of running a company, yet it suddenly gets placed on their shoulders that they must do it. So they act all CEO like and start running it. Until eventually they feel like someone who is running a company, that is who they are. 

If this is true. I wonder if you think so. Then wouldn't we all be able to do anything we set our minds to. We just need to pretend long enough until it become what we can and feel. I think this can be a scary thing as well, However I do believe that this proves, you can do anything if you try hard enough. What do you think?