Fake it till you make it! A mantra from our high school instructor. It was a reference to the strange behaviour of the atom. You may not understand what’s going on in the conventional sense, but you’re in good company. You have equations that work – use them.
It takes a lot of faith to fake it till you make it. It’s a blind guiding principle. You have to either be ignorant or really trust the people who are telling you what to do.
Fake it till you make it! he preached, but not even he made it. I don’t think that some things ever become clearer. Can you live with yourself knowing that your action was based on blind faith or that your inaction was the debilitating consequence of your skepticism? The answer really depends on what you prefer: memories of things that you did or a clear conscience, knowing that you were cognizant of the consequences every step of the way. There is a middle-ground, I know, but each particular decision seems to be an either/or.
“The map is not the territory”, the quote is from the study of neuro-linguistic programming. I learnt about it from my high-school teacher. NLP deals with beliefs, memories, and attitudes – how certain ways of looking at things just work until they don’t anymore, at which point it’s time to develop a new model. One of the things I’ve learnt from grad studies is that, instead of developing an infallible model, it would is sufficient to develop a reasonable one for the task at hand.
I see what you’re saying. It’s analogous to an instrumentalist’s approach in philosophy of science, and particularly reminds me of Nancy Cartwright’s theory of a “patchwork of models” as a description of science… but that’s irrelevant.
Above, I’m actually alluding to decisions regarding relationships. Some people “fake it till they make it”, but not even they ‘make it’. I took a quote that was intended to convince students to do their homework, and applied it to relationships. Yes, it was vague and confusing, but I like to see it as my way of being subtle.
It is vague and confusing. Even now I’m still not sure what you mean. Is your analogy meant to imply that a partner in a relationship should be doing their relationship-homework until they finally “get it”? Like understanding what a relationship is about, what works for a person’s and their partner’s relationship goals?
Nope. But for what it’s worth, I didn’t ever intend to have to explain myself, but I’ll do so now.
See new post “Guide to Misguided“.