Not Faking But Still Making It

Joey Lim
Joey Lim
Nov 7 · 3 min read

Fake it til you make it — a half-baked myth?

You have surely heard of this saying: fake it til you make it. The idea goes roughly like this: if your social anxiety leads you to stutter whenever you talk at parties, just fake confidence.

Don’t overthink the fact that your confidence levels have plummeted past zero. Just fake it.

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Writer | insanely curious about the real world & endlessly in love with fantasy

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