Proof For ‘Fake It Until You Make It’!
It’s the stuff of cheesy, pop-psychology legend. ‘Fake it until you make it’! Yeah, right! Excuse me if I refuse the snake oil and select a sick bag instead. Only one problem. It seems to be true. First there was Aristotle: “Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing...
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Captain Frederick Marryat (July 10, 1792 – August 9, 1848) was an English novelist, a contemporary and acquaintance of Charles Dickens, noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story. He is now known particularly for the autobiographical novel Mr Midshipman Easy and his children’s novel The Children of the New Forest. Why am I telling you this? Because it gives some context to one of the...
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