[Ailist] Fake it till ya make it

[Cheri Torres]

Hmmmm...

Perhaps in some sense we are always "faking" it, which is why in some
instances people have this sense of being "out on a limb" and that it is
somehow all made up.

...I'm thinking we are just beginning to touch the tip of what our brains
might actually be doing--perhaps we can't know yet because we haven't
created the frame yet to see it differently.  Since the brain responds to
the illusory and imagination as if it were real...perhaps that is all we are
ever doing when we are responding to "what is out there".

But I have now strayed very far down the rabbit hole....
Cheri

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:ailist-bounces at lists.business.utah.edu] On Behalf Of Anna spector
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 3:15 PM
To: ailist at lists.business.utah.edu
Subject: Re: [Ailist] Fake it till ya make it

This thread is awesome!  I love hearing from some of my favorite people on
here!  
   
  I think we should all be allowed to wear a big sign that says "UNDER
CONSTRUCTION CHECK BACK LATER."  
  I think that the lies for the sake of moving towards becoming something
more are helpful, if we are indeed moving forward.  If we can match out
behavior with our "lies," authentic change can happen and that is truly
exciting!   I believe in more than fake it until you make it.  I think that
we don't ever really fake it, I believe that we already know we have the
ability to do it, we just lack follow through.  If we exhibit the behavior,
or fake it, aren't we doing it?  Plato used to tell his students that there
wasn't anything new to learn, but only things to be discovered that already
existed.
   
   
   
   
   
  Best,
  Anna Spector
  MA, Organizational Psychology, Seattle.

       
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