What is the advantage of loosing your reputation?

Question

E.G. if somebody has said to you, "You are beautiful," or another said, "You are intelligent," and then for some personal reason you act differently then others expect and suddenly you loose the reputation others had about you. What would be the advantage of that?

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Answer 1

Reputation is like a label...... if one is removed, there is an opportunity to place another..... if one kind of reputation is lost, there is always the opportunity to create an alternate impression which might not have gelled so long as the previous one lasted. In your example, one who loses a reputation as beautiful can try to create an impression as intelligent. It is indeed rare that we would easily accept someone as both beautiful and intelligent.... for one reason or the other, reputations just stick to a single aspect rather than a multitude of them..... we sort of pick the most prominent feature among various existing ones to label anyone.

Answer 2

If you had a bad reputation, and gain a good reputation. That would be more like redemption. If you had a good  reputation and now have a bad reputation there is no advantage, maybe the fear from others, but not much at all.

Answer 3

it is just very normal. life is like a wheel, sometimes we are on the top, seems everything is so fine. sometimes we on the low, seems the whole world so so heavy and sometimes we are in the middle to take a rest and look up and down and finally, we can say that God is so true that everythings work for good and even trials, troubles and problems will turn into a great blessings in the future. maybe you can not understand them today but later in Gods perfect time, you can just smile how our life is. there is no perfect life at all. some dont have a good beginning but we can also have a good ending by Gods grace and mighty hand holding us.

Answer 4

The advantage would be a chance to find your real life.

"Lose your life to find it." More on my bio. Becoming who you really are is totally important. Reputation and how other people see you is just fluff and doesn't really amount to much.

Answer 5

Freedom!  You gain freedom by losing your reputation.

That's what I learnt.  Reputation can act as fetters...stopping you from being the REAL YOU.

I had this reputation of being a 'Sweet'  Person in my youth...not that I wasn't sweet...I WAS naturally sweet...but I realised later that many people are using that label to keep me suppressed/down and were actually taking advantage of my good-nature...like I won't mind this,  I won't mind that...kind of taking me for granted.  Once the realisation dawned on me,  I just turned round and fixed a few key people.  Everyone was shocked...temporarily.  But I had freed myself...broken all the shackles/fetters...forever.  Now I'm ME.  Not obligated to act in a particular way.  Not always sweet but still respected for what I am!

Answer 6

well, if the reputation you had was not the one that you wanted to have, then losing it would be an advantage right?

Answer 7

Losing your reputation simply means that you have been given a second chance and you begin again from scratch. Its like pulling your socks up, or if at first you don't suceed, or Bruce and the spider, etc, This time build your reputation with care, and look after it, like fine China, it is easily smashed.

Answer 8

You'll know how to stand up for yourself

Answer 9

after loosing your reputation, you would become a "no body". Then no one would see you; you would become an invisible man and you would have a good chance to see the world clearly.

Al Gore was a good example. He lost his presidency but have time to see the environmental problems.