”Fake it until you make it…”
Why?
To achieve some “success” so valuable that required you being an inauthentic fraud/imposter to get there?
Is the destination that essential to the ego that it’s truly worth the cost of integrity making the journey as a liar?
Have we really come to be so allured by surface-level images and placed so much worth on appearances that we’re so numbed out to the deeper level of substance and think nothing of being a fake?
Have we really become so deluded with desire to impress and “the ends justify the means” logic that we’d actually embrace such foolish philosophies, thinking that a means of fakeness/fraud would not bleed through to taint the ends with the energy of inauthenticity/lies and we’d eventually have to reap that energy sown?
But who am I to challenge the cultural belief systems and motivational dogma of hustle-porn gurus employing manipulative marketing strategies to line their own pockets by regurgitating addictive soundbytes appeasing the desires those who think following others’ advice to achieve their goals through deceit will deliver them to “success?”
Go ahead and test it for yourself…
See how far you can get as a fake until you run out of energy to keep the mask up and fall flat on your face with irreparable burnout & existential crisis when the strategy of trickery no longer works after denying/repressing your true self for years.
See how long your “success” can be sustained upon the foundation of lies.
Exerience for yourself the shattered reality inevitable when the light of Truth exposes the sham upon which your “goals” were “achieved.”
*Dare to open Pandora’s box so you will know what it’s like going from the heights of “glory” founded in falsity to the eroding self-esteem that comes from a version of imposter syndrome not due to emotional insecurities, but the inescapable fact you chose to be an imposter.
Or go ahead and disregard this perspective to defend your beliefs and carry on as a fake thinking “making it” as a fake is some illustrious destiny that’s going to make you worthy when you didn’t love yourself enough to start with that you felt it necessary to abandon authenticity in favour of trying to prove something by being a phone.
Do whatever you shall do, boo. Consequences on you.
Oh shit! If I had read this post earlier before posting mine. I surely would have included a link to this one of yours somewhere in its textual body or hidden behind one of its relevant pictures. Since somehow it gives me the impression that we are both addressing the same and a pretty similar subject, regardless of its kinda varied nuances.
So, I'm not going to rush much yet and I will wait until you read my post first confirming if my hunch is true. And if it is the case, just tell me if you would agree that I should edit my article to include a link that would lead here to yours, since in my opinion, everyone in this "social network" should read both.
By then and if you want, we could already be ready to talk about synchronicities and shit like that. LoL
Cheers!! :)
Hi @rok-sivante. I'd like to suggest Rant, Complain, Talk for this kind of topics in the future. OCD is for topics that don't fit in any other community and should be used when you don't find a niche community for your post.
I wouldn’t define this post as a “rant, complaint, or talk” (and you seem to have missed the entire point of the piece if concluding it were)… though would as “original content.”
No one said it's not original content.
You may also check the community rules, which says:
The imposter syndrome is real, but what you state here is on point, a lot of people are self-sabotaging continuously and make conscious decisions that takes them into the abyss of self doubt and lies. The "fake it till you make it" motto is not wrong as long as you actually make it with experience, learning and growing, not by deluding yourself until the end of times.
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