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fakeness. Of what use is that?
The idea behind “fake it till you make it” is to
emulate confidence, competence, an optimistic
mindset, or any other thing one wants to “be like”
Community
until these attributes become ingrained
realities.
The concept suggests that by pre-
tending to have qualities you don’t
yet possess; you can actually develop
them over time.
I am not sure if there is data anywhere
that shows how many people have
made real successes in life by faking
someone else. At best, you can only be
a photocopy of the original. How does
that help you or anyone else?
I do have my own thoughts about the
concept.
I think I will prefer to “create it until I
make it”.
What this means is, that life is about
choices, decisions, lessons, changes,
and processes. And all of these attri-
butes of life are the various ingredients
needed to mold or form the person we
want to be.
This means that by consciously mak-
ing the right decisions and right choic-
es, learning with every opportunity,
and following the process through, I
am involved in the daily building or
the creating of the me that I want to
see. So, when others see me as having
made it, in whatever way they define
“made it” to mean, I see myself as one
who went through the daily process
that created that me they see as made.
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