Faking It Till you Make It, Ensures You Wont Make It.

A common and often used phrase today is “ Fake it till you make it “. Somehow this makes it ok or encourages it, as part of a healthy strategy towards reaching our potential. Actually this is the furthest thing from the truth, faking it is the exact same thing as covering up and covering up just keeps the flaws hidden but does not stop them from reeking havoc on our lives. What is truly needed for potential to emerge naturally is a radical paradigm shift from a cover up mindset to an uncovering mindset. What our minds require is a healthy self-leadership where we uncover our flaws, the very things which inhibit the natural flow of potential, to paraphrase John Gardner, most of us are ailing because we have developed a functional blindness to our own defects, we are not suffering because we cannot resolve our problems, but because we cannot see or do not want to see or cover up our problems. Faking it is only deceiving ourselves.

Unfortunately most of us have been reared or cultivated with a cover up mindset and we can see the results very clearly today from a societal point of view, and if we look deeply enough, in our own personal lives also. The growth paradigm or mindset is very much dependent on uncovering, whereby we can feel safe to explore and understand our flaws and failures and their origins, in doing so we overcome our psychological blindness, if we cannot do this our potential gets trapped by our faking it.