Fake it til you make it?

[kotajikikox]

What do you do when you meet people who are financially or economically in a better position than you? Let us all be honest here.. we sometimes compare ourselves to our peers and see if they are doing better than us. There are times where, whether it is good or not, we can tell they are doing better in life. Of course we do not know their struggles but we know that financially they are quite more comfortable than you.

In that case, should you try to fake your own situation as to not get pity or should you be honest? When I encounter people who are financially ahead than me I just think that it will be me someday... That I will reach that level too where I would be able to buy whatever they can. So basically I try to make them my inspiration. Do you take inspiration from the rich people or do they make you feel worse?

[Umulala-alala]

There are people who fake their life so that people won't know or think they are suffering some also has miss opportunity from who would have be of help to them it is good to be sincere and not to feel proud.
I get motivated with what people are doing, i also get encourage through them that are independent.
There are few who fake it and later make it in life but no matter how bad it is let's always appear neat.

[Churchillvv]

Even though you want to be like them remember you have your own role to play in life so comparing steps would just do one thing but take your joy away and thus even using them as motivation would still put you on the radar of wanting to achieve what they are achieving but after that would that make you satisfied or happy? Of course not so be yourself and better let financial status of friends out one down.

But however, faking it would only take away opportunities far from you than it would ever keep you close to the peers that are rich.

[Plaguedeath]

My own opinion, I won't fake my condition, but I try to avoid to show my real condition and try to be someone who being grateful. It's a bad thing if you act pity or trying to praise your friend over his good life especially you did it many times, they will think you're looking for something and you're just influence a negative activity to them.

When they invite you to doing an expensive thing, don't try to fake it by agree with their invitation if you know you're not a financially capable. Also, don't agree and ask them to fund you, instead reject their invitation, once they ask the reason, be honest with your condition.

[Jewan420]

Not all of us have the same talent or our circumstances are not the same. So if you want to fake someone's success, then you are more likely to fail. Always focus on your own talent and try to lead yourself to success through your own creativity and hard work. There is not much to take inspiration from the success of others, you will not be satisfied with it.

When I meet a person who is richer than me, I do not have any reaction, but if I am neglected by someone, then my stubbornness forces me to achieve success, but of course it is on my own talent, creativity and hard work, not by faking others. I think the stubbornness of men is the main reason for their success. Jealousy does not play any role in success, but leads you to destruction. But I think, it is important for every man to be stubborn because of the neglect of others or for his own success. This will take you to unique heights.

[uneng]

To get inspired by others' stories is a good thing, since they are positive examples of success. If they have thrived in life through honest means without prejudicing others, then they can be used as inspirational role models, although you should avoid the ones who made fortune taking advantage and lying to people in order to succeed. It's also important to differentiate getting inspirated from getting envious, which means to desire what belong to others.

Also, to fake a situation is never a good idea. You have to be genuine to yourself and to people you encounter in life. That is what pushes us ahead, so we can also become inspiration for those we meet.

[Obulis]

What do you do when you meet people who are financially or economically in a better position than you? Let us all be honest here.. we sometimes compare ourselves to our peers and see if they are doing better than us. There are times where, whether it is good or not, we can tell they are doing better in life. Of course we do not know their struggles but we know that financially they are quite more comfortable than you.

In that case, should you try to fake your own situation as to not get pity or should you be honest? When I encounter people who are financially ahead than me I just think that it will be me someday... That I will reach that level too where I would be able to buy whatever they can. So basically I try to make them my inspiration. Do you take inspiration from the rich people or do they make you feel worse?

This philosophy of fake it til you make it ordinarily will psychological exist with assumptions and comparison which in the pursuit of wealth can be an unhealthy lifestyle. Most times, when you compare with others, jealousy can easily arouse which can blind the mind to talk of learning anything from the people you compare yourself with.

For sure some people's financial flag is so clear that people around knows their financial worth. But then, ...fake it till you make it... usually goes with appearance and looks. The most common interpretation given to this philosophy is usually how you look and or appear. This common interpretation normally creates room for assumptions, assuming that the next costly appearance looking person is financially well than you (comparison) which can make you feel inferior when some or most are just faking it.

The misinterpreting of this philosophy can also keep people poor by implications since they want to look like rich counterparts so they go on affording what they don't need at a particular time just to look great thereby misusing their hard earned money.

Being inspired by others happens in so many different ways but it can hardly happen when comparison sets in.
Just trying to uncover and grabs the healthy or a healthy interpretation of   ..fake it till you make it..

[Findingnemo]

No, I will not try to create an impression that I am richer than who I am and what I do will be just try to understand what they did better and what are the things that I can learn from. There are different kind of rich, we got OF model who is rich and we got business owner who is rich and then we got rich person who became oen from the social media or movies, etc.

[Odohu]

What do you do when you meet people who are financially or economically in a better position than you? Let us all be honest here.. we sometimes compare ourselves to our peers and see if they are doing better than us. There are times where, whether it is good or not, we can tell they are doing better in life. Of course we do not know their struggles but we know that financially they are quite more comfortable than you.

If you want to deny yourself peace of mind, always compare yourself with others especially those who you think are doing better thank you. This will drain you and kill your self esteem. Everyone have their time and that someone have made it now does not mean that your blessing will not come. Therefore, there is no point faking it, just appreciate being alive and having hope and you will be happy with what you have accomplished.

[WillyAp]

Fake it til you make it? won't work in the real work.
That is kind of a street level,
People will see through fakes pretty fast.

[JoyceBTC]

I will make them my inspiration, because I will be very happy to get to see when people are doing well, even though we are not on the same standard, I will be motivated to do better so I can be in a better position. If it’s something that requires me seeking their help I will surely do, they can actually be in a better position to show me the road that leads to success and I end up becoming successful. There’s no need of faking it and dying in silence because I might never make it when I choose to fake it, that is closing opportunities for me. I have to embrace myself no matter the situation I find myself and look for ways to improve.

[Marykeller]

Having in mind that this life, we are not in competition with anyone will help us not to be pressured when our peers are ahead of us "financially''.

I would rather be real with someone than fake it when I actually know that I may need their help for something, to learn what makes them successful. Faking it in life doesn't usually pay off as you are indirectly chasing off those who might want to help you at your downtimes.

[Jubilee58]

What do you do when you meet people who are financially or economically in a better position than you? Let us all be honest here.. we sometimes compare ourselves to our peers and see if they are doing better than us. There are times where, whether it is good or not, we can tell they are doing better in life. Of course we do not know their struggles but we know that financially they are quite more comfortable than you.

In that case, should you try to fake your own situation as to not get pity or should you be honest? When I encounter people who are financially ahead than me I just think that it will be me someday... That I will reach that level too where I would be able to buy whatever they can. So basically I try to make them my inspiration. Do you take inspiration from the rich people or do they make you feel worse?

There is no need to live a life of pretence, and there is a saying that of you are not informed that you are deformed.If you discover that some of your friends or pairs have made it or they are financially balanced, there is no need to pretend, they are making genue money you can ask them to carry you along and there is nothing wrong with that.

No body has ever succeeded alone in life, before you become successful in  life somebody must show you the way, and when you pretend as if all is well or you are okay, no body will force him or her self to help you.
I have seen many people that received help from friends, this is because they were able to open up to their friends or pairs and that was a turning point for them.

[Dunamisx]

Why should we fake it till we make it, what if we don't end up making it, isn't it going to be a disgrace on us, we had better been the true color and identity of our own self, because life is very easy to achieve anything we want, our own time may only comes different from how others are goin going to have their, we cant live a life that compares with others achievement, because things are not the same way applicable for all of us at the same time about life, while with patience, everyone will get to his final destination without rushing it.

[Japinat]

Sometimes, getting envy is human nature. But it will only make yourself look bitter, and it won’t be helpful in the long run, so it’s better to avoid that kind of negativity. Instead, just look at the person as your silent inspiration and motivation. I’m actually like that, hoping that one day I will also be favored and get to live a comfortable and successful life.

They say the more you attract positivity in life, the higher possibility you will also be like that. No need to feel envy, because that will only bring pain in you when you realized you got nothing but only poverty and life struggles.

[Joy_learns_crypto]

You did not answer your own question. You did not tell us if you fake it with your friends or if you are being honest with them about your finances. You just told us that you draw inspiration from them.
I am not living for my friends but for myself, my financial position is my responsibility and not a report card that I have to present to my friends.
I don’t have friends that I am in competition with so I don’t have anything to fake. If you are living a life that people pity you then that’s what you should be up against and not about faking anything.

[rachael9385]

What do you do when you meet people who are financially or economically in a better position than you? Let us all be honest here.. we sometimes compare ourselves to our peers and see if they are doing better than us. There are times where, whether it is good or not, we can tell they are doing better in life. Of course we do not know their struggles but we know that financially they are quite more comfortable than you.

In that case, should you try to fake your own situation as to not get pity or should you be honest? When I encounter people who are financially ahead than me I just think that it will be me someday... That I will reach that level too where I would be able to buy whatever they can. So basically I try to make them my inspiration. Do you take inspiration from the rich people or do they make you feel worse?

It's very simple, keep working on yourself and your personal growth without allowing anyone's success to bother you because it's not a limitation to what you would achieve. If you try to fake it because you feel you are not where you want to be based off someone else's standards or level you'd only exhaust yourself. Stay in your lane, mind your business and keep working hard. Like you said, make them your inspiration to work harder

[Versatile_choice]

What do you do when you meet people who are financially or economically in a better position than you?

when I meet people that is financially or economically stable the first thing to do is to lay low so that whatever plans they had for me will be executed. I won't pretend like I'm absolutely in a better position I will just review my real identity because when you meet people like this and you start acting as if you're in the same shoes with them maybe if there plans is to help you so that you will also be like them or even become more wealthy than them. but since you're already acting like you already have everything all to yourself they will just assume that you're doing perfectly fine, meanwhile you have nothing just packaging. This is the reason why most people end up losing a life changing opportunities.

[7juju]

I don't have a problem with you faking it and trying to make people see you like you have made it. As long as you are putting in the effort behind the scene and engaging in economic activities that will aid you to later making it in life. But if you truly know that you don't have anything that you are hoping on that will later help you to make it in life, you better not fake anything. Open up and ask for help from those your friends that are doing better than you.

[SATWAT]

I don't have a problem with you faking it and trying to make people see you like you have made it. As long as you are putting in the effort behind the scene and engaging in economic activities that will aid you to later making it in life. But if you truly know that you don't have anything that you are hoping on that will later help you to make it in life, you better not fake anything. Open up and ask for help from those your friends that are doing better than you.

I really appreciate your views because they are good and solid but here's the problem: things like these never work everywhere and for everyone around us few people seem to be interested in helping us improve our lives mostly because they want to let us down.
I'm talking about this in my near circle In face-to-face meetings we often have different opinions but what's behind them is that some people are working against us because they're unhappy with being brought up to a good level hypocrisy is at its worst just because of this we always need to do things that benefit us and also help others in developing our lives.
If you need help or want to find stability through friends or near people then there's still something you can do to make it work better otherwise you're nothing but a waste of time.