GMing Makes You a Better Person: Actor
Actually Role Playing
Acting your role in an TTRPG may be the hardest part of table top games for some people. And that's totally fine. However I will attempt to convince you to try it out if you haven't. I never once regretting fully playing a character in front of my friends.
Every time you role play, you get better at it. You don't have to be a professional voice actor for your RP to have a massive impact on the game and your players. The characters that my players have loved the most, are the one's that have most of my personality in them. Because ultimately that's who they enjoy spending time with.
Fake It Until You Make It
Over time, you'll get more and more comfortable with RP until it seeps into the other facets of your life. You might notice that you are emoting more in conversations or that you are less nervous speaking in front of others. Personally, I know now that when I have to give a presentation, I fall back on my GM tendencies and it makes the whole experience easier to get into. I'm much less nervous, and overall it's more enjoyable.
Acting out characters also helps you to build emotional intelligence. You'll be forced to explore emotions you might not typically express in your regular day to day.
Additionally, you also get to practice empathy without any real life consequences. Embodying a character in a particularly tough situation might help you to reflect on parallel situations in real life.
This is one more minor addition, but I also feel now that after many years of role playing, I better understand other's character motivations more as well as characters in media because its easier than ever for me to put myself in their shoes.
