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"Fake it 'till you make it" has so fundamentally changed how I function.

Heh, amazing isn't it? Bullshit has a single purpose, and that's to turn itself into gold.

I disagree with the sentiment behind your explanation (or at least what I read into it).

It's not so much that you're bullshitting and it's turning to gold - it's that you pretend to be comfortable in a situation where you are not, and then as you get used to it you become comfortable, and then you "make it."

Yes, OK, Bluster is probably a better word. You pretend to be comfortable until you are.

Basically, you're not going to suddenly become great as a CEO, but if you don't at least give off SOME confidence, your employees, partners, board, competitors, customers won't have any faith.

There's no magic there, it's simply experience. Do something risky, see nothing goes wrong, understand that the risk was lower than you originally estimated, lather, rinse, repeat.

Faking it is making it, most of the time it seems.

I'm not enough of an extrovert to nag you myself but I'm hoping that someone might nag me into do it.

Do it. The rest of us are writing about it, you know you want to too!

;)

This is me nagging.