Authentic vs Performance

I think Blum described her two terms pretty well and provided a good sense of examples. The way she defined bout authentic and performance self really helps the reader understand the terms. Blum did well in finding the right people to example her two terms. I would also have to agree as to what these two terms are telling us. There are people in this world that fit the descriptions very well and ts funny how we are seen this way.i think that her use of description were well thought out and perfectly depicted people who are authentic and performance self.

I would say that i apply myself to more of a authentic self more than a performance self. i do have my moments when i would give a stranger some fibs just to make myself look better in front of them. I say that i am most likely a authentic self since i don't really like to be a fake person or be friends with one. when it comes to presenting myself to new people, i tend to just be myself and give them the correct information. i really hate it when i meet people who seem nice and have good morals, but once the person hangs with certain people or go to certain places, like a bar, the other half of the person shows up and just saddens me. people do this action to conceal the real them and make up a totally new person with opposite traits of the person you meet. sometimes it's the opposite, the person would lie people of about their image with being a nice person. soon as some distance or disappearance of newly meet people, the person would go back to the original self. overall i would consider myself more of an authentic person, reason being is that i try to live life the way it is just see what happens. i don't like to try and alter my image just to make a few people like me or think i am cool. i stay true to who i am and don't need the media to tell me what i should look like in the world and just rebel against it.

i think the statement that Blum said is true. people are willing to get into any college that they desire just to get a well deserved degree from that college. people would lie and plagiarize just to receive what they desire and finish as quick as possible. people who are performance self tend to try and make due with life by providing people false information just so that they can succeed and go on with life. they think they can just go on through college with the imagery of a false character. plus performance selves have the willingness to plagiarize more than authentic selves since they don't really want to learn anything. performance selves aren't the type of people who would be true to themselves and learn anything in the class. while authentic selves on the other hand, they are willing to expose themselves to people but still hold some stuff back like personal issues. those type of people are the ones that don't really mind what other people think of them and accepts anything that happens to them.