I forced my self to believe that I can be a "someone" even though I've no experience in doing it before. The company I'm working for lacks staffs, so they have no choice but to send a young and inexperience guy to take care of a project site. I was just a technician back then, but had to forcibly level up my responsibility and knowledge equal to that of an engineer. It was a good learning experience though, that molded me into what I am today.

Fake it till I make it...Hmm.. sounds tiring to me haha but sometimes I catch myself telling myself that too.. I agree on the why, we need to be reminded of why we do what we do! Thanks for the post! Dont just believe it because it feels right, but deep down may we see them align with our values too!

I really agree with this post. I think making your own brand of personality something attractive far outweighs cheap imitation. I'll be looking out for more of your content. Followed and upvoted ya :)

I first heard this advice about faking it till you succeed from a book "How I raise myself to success from failure". This is nearly 30 years ago. Faking it meant to have that inner confidence as if you have already attain the desired goal. Thos can applied by visualisation and charnting self affirmation mantra.

On the other hand,  if the confidence is hyped up due external factor such as to owning  luxury accessories such as rolex watch,  a new mercedes then it could lead to dissapointing results.

hmm I don’t know. Fake myself? Not sure if I can do that...
Anyway great advice. 
Upvoted and followed!

Wise words from the man! Thank you again for sharing your consistent mini motivational posts!

Sometimes I just lie to myself to forget the hurdles I have to face. Yet going through life we may forget how far we come when we keep lying about where we are headed. Clear vision means clear goals. Better to know who I am and work on what I want to improve to be better. Thanks.

Fake personality ultimately creates problems in the long run and such people start suffering from inferiority complex too.

That was truly beautiful

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Beautiful post,i like it very much,

Thanks  @maverickfoo. I know coming from a Internet Marketer's viewpoint "fake it til you make it" has real negative connotations!

It means people are openly portraying like they are practically millionaire marketers when in fact they have hardly made anything. It's a delusion and  it's definitely being a deceptive fake trying to fool others.

The good thing about Steemit is...there is total transparency. So you cannot pretend to e someone you're not. The personal stats are right there for everyone to see :)


Thanks for your excellent Post.
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From my personal experience- faking until you make it is not so good.  Because when you finally make it, you take it for granted since you believed already for some time that you already have it.

Coincidentally, I just finished writing a post yesterday almost similar to "Fake it till you make it".  I'd like to have your opinion.

The why is to be happier at work.
The How is bring out the traits and values of the strengths in you, or strengths that you want to have.

So that grey area is "the strengths that you want to have". Let's say I want to be kind. So I consciously think of ways to be kind and act on them.
Does this mean "fake it till you make it?"

This is so true, I still remember my manager told me to conduct internal training to my department and that was my first-time conduct training. I told her I wasn't ready and not confident to do so. She gave me some tips on how to look confidence so that I will look like I've experienced on doing so. In fact, I followed her tips and phew I did it. Then, she told me I have to fake it (feel confident) until I make it. I need to feel confident in front of audiences and do not panic. I need to visualize myself talking in front of audiences with confidence and so on. It works on me, and I now very comfortable to do presentation/ training in a small group like max 20 audiences. From low confidence to have high confidence and knowing the purpose of the presentation/training to the audiences that motivate me to continue to do so. 

So for me, it will be like I need to fake it at first to gain more confident or whatever to certain stage until I feel comfortable to do so then *why* comes in.

Thank you so much @maverickfoo for this great post, you remind me how I started my first presentation. :)