Reputation in contemporary dictionary is a measurement of how an individual in a given society is perceived in character and demeanor. It is contended by positive and negative influences that affect the individual in question, such as completing quests that meet the societal demands and sways against a collective believe of appropriateness or decency or religious standard.
Reputation is separated into two categories: Fame and Infamy. Fame is positive and infamy is negative. Both types of reputation are tracked separately, the combination of which determines your reputation with any given society. The benefits and drawbacks of any given reputation depend on the societal believes itself.
Although the issues of fame and infamy have been so mis-understood that we mostly refer to infamy these days as fame, especially in the world of the celebrities:
Here are the Four-Phases of Fame:
It is important to look at the way fame is experienced by the celebrity over time. Within the structural theme of temporality, a developmental design emerged from the data showing that fame was generally experienced as a progression through four phases: a period of love/hate towards the experience; an addiction phase where behavior is directed solely towards the goal of remaining famous; an acceptance phase, requiring a permanent change in everyday life routines; and finally an adaptation phase, where new behaviors are developed in response to life changes involved in being famous. Participants described this temporal aspect as unfolding from the first moment of being famous throughout the rest of the lifespan.
Love/Hate. Relationship-to-world themes are revealed as participants seek effective ways of acclimating to being a famous person. At first, the experience of becoming famous provides much ego stroking. Newly famous people find themselves warmly embraced. There is a guilty pleasure associated with the thrill of being admired in that participants both love the attention and adoration while they question the gratification they experience from fame. “I enjoy parts of it, but I hate parts of it, too,” was a generally reported theme. Addiction. Te lure of adoration is attractive, and it becomes difficult for the person to imagine living without fame. One participant said, “It is somewhat of a high,” and another, “I kind of get off on it.” One said, “I’ve been addicted to almost every substance known to man at one point or another, and the most addicting of them all is fame .”
Where does the celebrity go when fame passes; having become dependent on fame, how does one adjust to being less famous over time? “As the sun sets on my fame,”one celebrity said, “I’m going to have to learn how to put it in its proper place.” Te adjustment can be a difficult one. Acceptance. As the attention becomes overwhelming and expectations,temptations, mistrust, and familial concerns come to the fore, the celebrity resolves to accept fame, including its threatening phenomenal aspects.“You learn to accept it,” one celebrity said. After a while, celebrities report that they come to see that fame is “just so much the will-o’-the-wisp, and you just can’t build a house on that kind of stuff.”
Adaptation: Only after accepting that “it comes with the territory” can the celebrity adaptively navigate fame’s choppy waters. “Once you’re famous,”a participant said, “you don’t make eye contact or you keep walking . . . and you just don’t hear [people calling your name].” Adaptive patterns can include reclusiveness, which gives rise in turn to mistrust and isolation. “I don’t want to go out if I don’t feel good about looking forward to meeting anybody or just being nice to people,” another celebrity reported.
The Experience of Being Famous: A Composite extual Description.
The experience of being famous is something for which no one is prepared that we all know.It is a world described as bizarre, surreal, scary, lonely, creepy, daunting,embarrassing, confusing, and invasive. Te celebrity life is also described as providing flattery, warmth, ego gratification, adoration, unlimited access,enormous wealth, and membership in an exclusive club in which one is surrounded by other famous people.Loss of privacy and Entitization. Many celebrities reported finding themselves ill-equipped for and struggling with the deluge of attention that comes with fame.
The intense attention brought by fame is a mixed blessing rather than an unalloyed benefit. Stars seem more prone to destructive behavior, including alcoholism, accidents, ulcers and suicide. "If you wish to live long, don't become famous," states an old Jewish proverb.
Kim Fowles, author of Starstruck, conducted a statistical study showing that top celebrities die young. Circa 1974 the average American male died at age 68 but the average male celebrity died at 59. The gap for women is even larger. Seventy-five was the average life expectancy for American women but it was only 54 for female celebrities.
Many of the problems of stars spring from the heavy psychological burdens of fame. Stars seek the love of the crowd out of personal insecurity, but the receipt of approval typically feeds their insecurities. Fame‑seekers are trying to fill a personal void by looking to others for affirmation. This quest nourishes and magnifies their fears by addressing symptoms rather than causes. The more a person looks to others for approval, the more that approval becomes needed. The approbation becomes a benchmark for happiness, making the fame‑seeker an unhappy slave to the wills and passions of others.
I feel these same effects myself, even when experiencing very small victories, such as seeing David Bowie. I start to invest psychological capital in seeking the approval of my friends who are impressed by this fact, and I thereby lose some of my autonomy. I lose some control over how I actually want to direct my life and I become separated from my true preferences. The famous experience the same problems but at much more potent levels.
The addiction of fame is an unhappy one, especially at the highest levels of renown. The famous seek an ongoing string of triumphs, but eventually they run out of victories. They reach the point where further achievements are either impossible or do not bring new rewards. Bowie probably will never make another album as good as Ziggy Stardust, and Iman will never regain her modeling fame. They have already processed the excitement from those accolades and now face the question of where to go and what to do next.
When failure comes, as it must sooner or later, the psyche of the famous person is left hanging in the wind. Stars who are motivated by an initial need to be loved live in a world where eventual rejection is inevitable. The famous who have been feasting on praise and sycophancy deal poorly with failure.
Reputation is separated into two categories: Fame and Infamy. Fame is positive and infamy is negative. Both types of reputation are tracked separately, the combination of which determines your reputation with any given society. The benefits and drawbacks of any given reputation depend on the societal believes itself.
Although the issues of fame and infamy have been so mis-understood that we mostly refer to infamy these days as fame, especially in the world of the celebrities:
Here are the Four-Phases of Fame:
It is important to look at the way fame is experienced by the celebrity over time. Within the structural theme of temporality, a developmental design emerged from the data showing that fame was generally experienced as a progression through four phases: a period of love/hate towards the experience; an addiction phase where behavior is directed solely towards the goal of remaining famous; an acceptance phase, requiring a permanent change in everyday life routines; and finally an adaptation phase, where new behaviors are developed in response to life changes involved in being famous. Participants described this temporal aspect as unfolding from the first moment of being famous throughout the rest of the lifespan.
Love/Hate. Relationship-to-world themes are revealed as participants seek effective ways of acclimating to being a famous person. At first, the experience of becoming famous provides much ego stroking. Newly famous people find themselves warmly embraced. There is a guilty pleasure associated with the thrill of being admired in that participants both love the attention and adoration while they question the gratification they experience from fame. “I enjoy parts of it, but I hate parts of it, too,” was a generally reported theme. Addiction. Te lure of adoration is attractive, and it becomes difficult for the person to imagine living without fame. One participant said, “It is somewhat of a high,” and another, “I kind of get off on it.” One said, “I’ve been addicted to almost every substance known to man at one point or another, and the most addicting of them all is fame .”
Where does the celebrity go when fame passes; having become dependent on fame, how does one adjust to being less famous over time? “As the sun sets on my fame,”one celebrity said, “I’m going to have to learn how to put it in its proper place.” Te adjustment can be a difficult one. Acceptance. As the attention becomes overwhelming and expectations,temptations, mistrust, and familial concerns come to the fore, the celebrity resolves to accept fame, including its threatening phenomenal aspects.“You learn to accept it,” one celebrity said. After a while, celebrities report that they come to see that fame is “just so much the will-o’-the-wisp, and you just can’t build a house on that kind of stuff.”
Adaptation: Only after accepting that “it comes with the territory” can the celebrity adaptively navigate fame’s choppy waters. “Once you’re famous,”a participant said, “you don’t make eye contact or you keep walking . . . and you just don’t hear [people calling your name].” Adaptive patterns can include reclusiveness, which gives rise in turn to mistrust and isolation. “I don’t want to go out if I don’t feel good about looking forward to meeting anybody or just being nice to people,” another celebrity reported.
The Experience of Being Famous: A Composite extual Description.
The experience of being famous is something for which no one is prepared that we all know.It is a world described as bizarre, surreal, scary, lonely, creepy, daunting,embarrassing, confusing, and invasive. Te celebrity life is also described as providing flattery, warmth, ego gratification, adoration, unlimited access,enormous wealth, and membership in an exclusive club in which one is surrounded by other famous people.Loss of privacy and Entitization. Many celebrities reported finding themselves ill-equipped for and struggling with the deluge of attention that comes with fame.
The intense attention brought by fame is a mixed blessing rather than an unalloyed benefit. Stars seem more prone to destructive behavior, including alcoholism, accidents, ulcers and suicide. "If you wish to live long, don't become famous," states an old Jewish proverb.
Kim Fowles, author of Starstruck, conducted a statistical study showing that top celebrities die young. Circa 1974 the average American male died at age 68 but the average male celebrity died at 59. The gap for women is even larger. Seventy-five was the average life expectancy for American women but it was only 54 for female celebrities.
Many of the problems of stars spring from the heavy psychological burdens of fame. Stars seek the love of the crowd out of personal insecurity, but the receipt of approval typically feeds their insecurities. Fame‑seekers are trying to fill a personal void by looking to others for affirmation. This quest nourishes and magnifies their fears by addressing symptoms rather than causes. The more a person looks to others for approval, the more that approval becomes needed. The approbation becomes a benchmark for happiness, making the fame‑seeker an unhappy slave to the wills and passions of others.
I feel these same effects myself, even when experiencing very small victories, such as seeing David Bowie. I start to invest psychological capital in seeking the approval of my friends who are impressed by this fact, and I thereby lose some of my autonomy. I lose some control over how I actually want to direct my life and I become separated from my true preferences. The famous experience the same problems but at much more potent levels.
The addiction of fame is an unhappy one, especially at the highest levels of renown. The famous seek an ongoing string of triumphs, but eventually they run out of victories. They reach the point where further achievements are either impossible or do not bring new rewards. Bowie probably will never make another album as good as Ziggy Stardust, and Iman will never regain her modeling fame. They have already processed the excitement from those accolades and now face the question of where to go and what to do next.
When failure comes, as it must sooner or later, the psyche of the famous person is left hanging in the wind. Stars who are motivated by an initial need to be loved live in a world where eventual rejection is inevitable. The famous who have been feasting on praise and sycophancy deal poorly with failure.
Shocking. I can hardly believe that Rihana is dead. Never mind all they say about the person. I am taken by her music. She plays good music. And no one can take that from her. May she learn as she travels along the path of life.
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