What is your interpretation of that saying?
My therapist from the past once said to me,
If you push yourself to smile,
It can actually make you feel better.
I think it’s a good way to summarise tat saying in a nut shell…
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I don’t think it means that I should be happy non stop.
But I think it’s good for me to focus on positivity
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I think for example faking self confidence in some cases can be helpful.
I meean, it helps me! I truly start feeling (not always but sometimes) more confident.
Buuut, still, natural confidence which comes through life events is best
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I live by that statement though once it seemed dumb. I acted my way out of the hospital.
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This is a sore point for me.
I was undiagnosed until I was 38.
I faked being normal until then because I didn’t know what was wrong and wanted to fit in.
Now, I don’t fake it anymore. I don’t want to go back to those days.
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It sounds good because it rhymes.
I think it is based on the idea of feeding your brain positive thoughts about a desired outcome, in hopes that the brain will adjust and work towards reaching said outcome.
For shy people, showing up and forcing themselves to speak their mind - this approach may work. They gradually become more confident.
For professionals looking to land a job in their field, they had better not fake it. I wouldn’t want a low-skill dentist touching my teeth.
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Fake it till you make it means to me ‘be the person you wanna be’ until you become them.
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It doesn’t make you happy non-stop, believe me. But it gets you in the habit of being a more positive person and good things follow from that.
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I agree with it 
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Real it till you meal it.
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At first I thought it was not something I believed in. I believed in genuine motivation and positivity but I didn’t realize about habits. Nobody likes fake people. And when I heard people say to fake it and make it here who were walking the talk. I understood habits but I didn’t understand faking things because I don’t like faking anything. I believe if a person is hurting they should express it and deal with it rather than hold it in. There are so many role models on here and when I use them as examples. I believed I was trying to do the impossible. I was brainwashed that Schizophrenia didn’t allow people to achieve and it was impossible. I accepted my illness as a medical condition that permanently doesn’t allow me to do anything. No one ever overcame SZ and Medication was the only thing to deal with it. I realize there are some serious examples on here of people that overcame SZ. It was a habit. I have developed a habit of positivity and happiness and physical action. I couldn’t have done it without the examples on this forum. They showed me I was not trying to do something that no human can achieve. I now am genuinely happy with myself. I am positive that I am overcoming my SZ. I am doing something that I and others want me to do. When you have others support for you to achieve what they have achieved it is all positive. They are passing on what they were taught. Things that worked for them. And they are proof that it works for people.
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Pretend to be who you want to be.
Until you meet people who validate that person you pretended to be and then you get opportunities to be that person and you no longer have to pretend.
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Wish it.
Want it.
Do it.
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I don’t like the saying “fake it till you make it” because the word fake implies fraud. I like the saying “believe it to achieve it.”
We know that the placebo effect is real: If people truly believe they’re going to get better they do. I’m not saying they’ll be cured of whatever ails them, but their condition will improve.
In 1954, Roger Bannister was the first person to run one mile in less than four minutes. Bannister said that he would do it. He believed he could do it. And he did it. Bannister did the “impossible.”
I find it very interesting that Bannister’s world record stood for only 46 days. Then that record quickly fell, and so on. How did so many runners get so much faster so quickly? Because they believed they could.
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I think people like us cant wait for random spontaneous inner motivation to do stuff or get things done. We need to force ourselves. At least at first. Until its habitual or we get used to it. In other words, fake it till you make it.
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I faked it my whole life, I guess…I was trying to fit in and make it.
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use forged currency until you get a job
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I think, “Fake” word is not suitable, specially for “thought”. “Assume something then prove it afterwards.” It is correct for me.
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