Fake it Until You Make It

<p><b>Fake it 'Til You Make It</b></p> <p>Right now, I want to talk about the notion of faking it 'til you make it, which is kind of a common term if you read a lot of self-improvement books.</p> <p>The idea is that if you act a certain way, even if you don't feel that way if you act that way long enough you can create the feeling. You can create this new result.</p> <p><b>Which can work when used properly, but I think it's misunderstood. A lot of people think fake it 'til you make it means you pretend you're successful when you're not. </b></p> <p>You borrow a bunch of money to buy a fancy car or suit or watch, to give other people the impression that you're successful at sales, but meanwhile you never actually learn how to sell anything.</p> <p><b>That's not really good implementation of fake it until you make it. You're probably just going to go broke.</b></p> <p>A better implementation of fake it 'til you make it would be you take on a new job and that job requires that you deliver presentations, that you're a trainer, and you speak in front of people, and you hate doing it. You're scared. You're terrified. You don't want to get in front of that crowd because it's a scary thought. You're not used to doing it</p> <p>But you have to do it because it's part of your new job.</p> <p>Well, you don't have to let your audience know that you're terrified, that on the inside you feel these anxieties and these fears. You can fake it. You can fake confidence. You can act as though you're confident, you're well-prepared, that you're ready to tackle the world. That you love doing it.</p> <p>You can act that way. You can appear to the outside world that you love what you're doing. On the inside, they don't really know what's going on. You can hide the fact that you might be feeling a little nervous right now, or maybe even worse than that.</p> <p><b>This is an example of fake it 'til you make it, where it actually works.</b></p> <p>The thing is if you act that way long enough, and I've actually done this bec