I embraced this concept a few years ago when I went back to school. It worked great, at first. But very quickly I found that if I didn't fake confidence and knowledge, people started to treat me like an idiot.
Coming out of school my options for employment ended up being very limited because I couldn't get any recommendations, and my employment I did manage to get has been threatened because my coworkers see me as inadequate, even though I see them make their own mistakes all the time.
Sometimes perception is everything. If people see you as confident, they tend to believe you actually know what you're doing. I've seen people fail upwards into promotions just because they were good at faking competence.
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I embraced this concept a few years ago when I went back to school. It worked great, at first. But very quickly I found that if I didn't fake confidence and knowledge, people started to treat me like an idiot.
Coming out of school my options for employment ended up being very limited because I couldn't get any recommendations, and my employment I did manage to get has been threatened because my coworkers see me as inadequate, even though I see them make their own mistakes all the time.
Sometimes perception is everything. If people see you as confident, they tend to believe you actually know what you're doing. I've seen people fail upwards into promotions just because they were good at faking competence.