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#012 - Why 'faking it till you make it' doesn't work, and what you can do instead

Beyond the Self with Africa Brooke

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Are You Faking It?

Many people have that feeling of being a fraud, right? And whatever feelings you have internally when you hear those words can start to give you a bit of a signal and an understanding of how your value system is set up. So i just wrote just a list of things, ok, in terms of what i believe the problem is with focusing on faking it. Number one, keeping up appearances and pretending will get exhausting, not just psychological, but it can also become physically draining. You will also feel like more of an impostor. It impacts you on an identity level more than you might realize.

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