Fake it til you make it?

[o48o]

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?

I don't have any one way to treat people based on their economic status. If i had that, it would mean i believed people with different economic status would be needed to treat differently. That's just weird to me.

I have some rich friends, and even though i am not one, i see us as equals and so do they. Same goes with dirt poor people i know. Or with people that are just right now in a bad spot financially.

While ago i was thinking if i was jealous of their wealth, but then i remembered that they have sacrificed a lot for their wealth. And honestly, i wouldn't want to change places with any of them. Partnerships and friendships be real hard, no matter how much money you have, and seems like rich people i know have way more problems then i do.

[goldkingcoiner]

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?

A lot of poor people have a lot of talent and could become quite wealthy, if they had the confidence. That is what they are missing. Confidence.

And sure, the fake it till you make it sounds like it would not work in the real world, but it does wonders for precisesly those people with the lack of confidence in themselves. I used to think it meant "lie about who you are to trick others into believing that that is the real you". But the truth is, you trick yourself into believing that fake guy is the real you, and in time, that fake confidence becomes real.

[Localhostspeed]

The good thing here is that this advice comes in different versions and it depends on how you intend to apply it pertaining to your intentions and life's goals.Claiming skills and results you don’t have can damage trust and reputation.This gradually rewires your mindset to actually be more hopeful and resilient.

We live in a world where show off is now a criterion for successful life. Why would any sane person want to fake a lifestyle. If you are not a business person that requires packaging and some unique class, you don't have any reason to want to leave a fake life. Most of the time, this fake life is to draw attention of women, no serious person want to live a fake life.

Even as a business person, if you continue to fake it and you get clients and with time you couldn't meet up to your business partners expectations, you are going to lose them. If you are faking, make sure you are also trying as much as possible to make it workout in the end.

[bakasabo]

A lot of poor people have a lot of talent and could become quite wealthy, if they had the confidence. That is what they are missing. Confidence.

And sure, the fake it till you make it sounds like it would not work in the real world, but it does wonders for precisesly those people with the lack of confidence in themselves. I used to think it meant "lie about who you are to trick others into believing that that is the real you". But the truth is, you trick yourself into believing that fake guy is the real you, and in time, that fake confidence becomes real.

There are good number of examples, that people who live under "fake it till you make it" rule end in jail. Those people lose connection with reality. They believe that if they manage to trick people with their fake wealth, they are able to trick laws and tax authorities. Those people allow themselves too much. In my life I have never met a person who has faked his life, trying to show that he is more wealthy, intelligent, skilled and lucky, than he really is, and he get away with it.

[Salahmu]

Disguising live doesn't help but it push back what was supposed to come to you. When you meet someone perhaps your childhood friend or your school mate during that time you shouldn't act or lie so that he will not see you common, the person might not even see you that way because he doesn't just become rich without experiencing some live giving challenges so definitely he would understand that the person situation is not a permanent one but something that would definitely change, another thing is that you wouldn't no if the person would decides to empower or put you were you could be seeing the finances you have not seen before so is better to be sincere even if they mocked you than lying to yourself what you are not.

Honestly, doing better than someone isn't really a good thing to brag about neither. Because then you are telling how you are better and they are worse. If the reality is really that you are doing better, you should be still humble and say it's going alright.

Doesn't matter if he is the janitor and you are the doctor, because while doctors do save lives, and feel more important, if there were no janitors, then the doctors would have to clean the whole thing themselves, or have garbage filled hospitals,

Is unfortunate that some of those who brag doesn't realize that everybody most not do the same thing and secondly even if a person is doing a small job that isn't up to there job standard but they have people who depend on them to fix there properties or problem, just like you mentioned janitors, it might look like a dirty job to those people but if there is no janitors they will see the impact it has. Besides even if somebody is a janitor doesn't necessarily mean they would spend the rest of there live on it because live varies, they can become more a doctor tomorrow. Although the mentality of bragging are mostly common to those whom all there live has been sleeping in money because someone who was ones a poor will hardly see another and brag on them because he was on there shoe before so since live turnaround for them definitely it will also turnaround for those other people.

[free-bit.co.in]

Pretending can't make us rich like them or make us look like a rich person. Because we can't pretend to have fancy cars, houses or spend like them. Pretending to be rich only makes us look like clowns. So I always choose to be honest and straightforward, even though sometimes I will be despised.

Honestly, sometimes I feel sad and somewhat self-conscious when I see many of my friends achieving success and wealth in life. Meanwhile, I myself have no significant achievements, and as a married man with children. This is really a shame and disadvantage for my children.

[bettercrypto]

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?

Not all people think the same way we all have different perspectives and principles. What you said, OP, may be true for some who have experienced that kind of situation.
That’s just how life is we all go through struggles, and struggles don’t choose people; whether rich or poor, everyone experiences them.

And I’m not that kind of person. Whatever my situation or condition in life is, I don’t feel ashamed of it even back then when my life wasn’t so good compared to now,
where at least there’s already a big difference.

[GiftedMAN]

Honestly, sometimes I feel sad and somewhat self-conscious when I see many of my friends achieving success and wealth in life. Meanwhile, I myself have no significant achievements, and as a married man with children. This is really a shame and disadvantage for my children.

No need to feel sad over what others have achieved I understand how sad it is especially when they are your mates who you probably grew up together but seeing what they have achieved should be a motivational to you to keep chasing your dreams and pushing your investment to ensure that in future you end up giving your kids a better life. You may not have started when they started no need to be ashamed of yourself rather put yourself together and work harder to gather funds and start up a good business that will help you invest so that in the nearest future you will be above them and then you will be happy you did.

[Obim34]

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?

Faking a life is more expensive than living in one's true self. Think about what will happen if you get caught in the act, first you will lose your reputation which has been faked while enough and also you still won't make it because of losing every connection you've built on deception.

No true successful person i know faked a lifestyle instead of working in the best way they can to accomplish their aim, there is always greater reward in humility, be yourself and learn the ways of successful people, you don't need to imitate to feel among, it's about earning the right knowledge and building a better self.

[348Judah]

Not everything we need to fake and there is an extent to which we have to fake things, because some may later bounce back on us, from the other perspective, I will say that we can take much of the time to learn new things and got fresh ideas to be able to have enough competences on a particular thing, instead of us faking it, we may not know what it takes to have misrepresented ourselves when the test of time comes and we have to prove ourselves, better not to start on what we can't later finished and it bounce back on us in the future.

[Different patterns]

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?

Mingling with people who are financially better off than you is not offensive; it is also an achievement in life, because two poor people cannot help each other, but when you have opportunities to mingle with people who are financially okay, you can get some business ideas from them if they are really good friends and ready to guide. It does not really matter to fake it, because in your process of faking it, you may lose your helper. When you fake it, they may think you have already when you have nothing.

Although some still make it in the process of faking it, while some do not, when you show the kind of person you are without faking it, your helper will eventually locate you.

[Ucy]

To fake being rich is to make yourself rich even though you are poor. This violate the moral code or law that guides people to success because it promotes pride. It could make you spend more than you have and running you into debts.  Being honest is humility and could attract success that comes from being pitied.

By the way, in the Good System members are instead encouraged to make themselves poor even though they are rich partly for the sake of humility. I believe putting yourself in this position prevents you from spending money unnecessarily thereby preserving and increasing your wealth.
It could also help put away fake friends or people that would've stuck with you for what they would gain rather than the unconditional love kind of friendship.
This position also makes people underestimate you and gives you big edge over them.

[DaNNy001]

Life is simple but yet we make it complicated a lot of times, someones growth in life isn't a threat to yours...instead of looking down on yourself and trying to pretend or fake it like you said it's better to just be real and focus on your own journey...There's no crime in mingling or associating yourself with people that are financially boyant than you..it's an opportunity for you to get inspired and learn from them

[peter0425]

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?

I don't have any one way to treat people based on their economic status. If i had that, it would mean i believed people with different economic status would be needed to treat differently. That's just weird to me.

I have some rich friends, and even though i am not one, i see us as equals and so do they. Same goes with dirt poor people i know. Or with people that are just right now in a bad spot financially.

If someone ranks a person by their wealth you can tell this person is already not a good person. One should be treated nicely and with respect if he deserves it and he will earn it if he is a kind person himself. Wealth is temporary so do not be a slave to money. We do need it but it does not change the kind of person that we are.

While ago i was thinking if i was jealous of their wealth, but then i remembered that they have sacrificed a lot for their wealth. And honestly, i wouldn't want to change places with any of them. Partnerships and friendships be real hard, no matter how much money you have, and seems like rich people i know have way more problems then i do.

It really depends on how content you are with your life and the perspective you have. You might be happy with what you have already while the rich ones don't which increases their problems.

[Tmoonz]

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.

Even while it good to appear neat and decent most people don't really cares much with their appearance I mean their appearance doesn't reflect much about the size of their financial circumstances these are people that are doing well, faking life style is bad and even when one isn't faking life it is important not to remain in our shell we should be able to come out of our shell be open to people with real intentions reflecting who are you it can be an open door for liberation while pretending to be who you are not really be of any good just as you have said, where in a society that is made up of different levels of social stratification the struggle is to upgrade and sustain good standards of living, seeing others doing better than me inspire me and I try not to fake life my Life style.

[Republikcoin.com]

The good thing here is that this advice comes in different versions and it depends on how you intend to apply it pertaining to your intentions and life's goals.Claiming skills and results you don’t have can damage trust and reputation.This gradually rewires your mindset to actually be more hopeful and resilient.

People who fake it until they succeed are skilled at hiding behind something we don't realize. It's best to avoid such people and never collaborate with them, even to a certain extent. Because people who are good at pretending usually don't reveal their true intentions to those they collaborate with, and this is absolutely unsuitable in any business setting.

Can have? Will have is way more fitting.
Catch someone fake and you don't work with him/her any more.

A fake person who often pretends to be innocent is a very skilled deceiver and he can even do anything as long as no one sees him working, but when dealing with someone or someone who trusts him, that person always pretends as if he can't do anything and this is really dangerous for some people, especially if it is really not realized from the start.

[goldkingcoiner]

A lot of poor people have a lot of talent and could become quite wealthy, if they had the confidence. That is what they are missing. Confidence.

And sure, the fake it till you make it sounds like it would not work in the real world, but it does wonders for precisesly those people with the lack of confidence in themselves. I used to think it meant "lie about who you are to trick others into believing that that is the real you". But the truth is, you trick yourself into believing that fake guy is the real you, and in time, that fake confidence becomes real.

There are good number of examples, that people who live under "fake it till you make it" rule end in jail. Those people lose connection with reality. They believe that if they manage to trick people with their fake wealth, they are able to trick laws and tax authorities. Those people allow themselves too much. In my life I have never met a person who has faked his life, trying to show that he is more wealthy, intelligent, skilled and lucky, than he really is, and he get away with it.

Well, there definitely is such a thing as going overboard. I can agree with you on that. And everyone should be able to judge whether or not faking something could end up in a disaster.

You can fake it till you make it as a CEO, even though you might only have a start-up and no employees. Nobody will fault you for that. But if you fake it as a medical doctor and try to treat patients, you will not only get into legal trouble, you might also hurt or kill someone by accident.

There are two ways to take it and obviously I am not advocating for the latter. The point is to use common sense.

[bitzizzix]

Life is simple but yet we make it complicated a lot of times, someones growth in life isn't a threat to yours...instead of looking down on yourself and trying to pretend or fake it like you said it's better to just be real and focus on your own journey...There's no crime in mingling or associating yourself with people that are financially boyant than you..it's an opportunity for you to get inspired and learn from them

It's true that living life as it is with gratitude is far better and without any envy at all. The most important thing is to keep striving to be better if you don't feel better yet, so that life feels comfortable.

And before looking at someone or a friend who is better than us, we should evaluate or think the same way if someone or a friend below us looked at us. Would they think the same? So, it's better to be yourself without having to pretend just for prestige. Being mature and intelligent when meeting or socializing with someone will look extraordinary compared to those who are better.

[Ishicryptic]

For me anything fake is deception, I like to be realistic and I don't have to lie to impress anybody, one of the reasons for this is that I don't know who can be of help to me in the future. If you fake that you are well-off maybe people that might help will think that you are comfortable therefore not in need of any support. I'm not in competition with anybody to make it in life, I'm on my own lane, other people's wealth is a motivation for me to work harder to make it like them but for the main time I don't envy anybody's achievements. We only see the surface of the riches of other people but we don't understand their pains and regrets, some had to do unimaginable things to become rich. We should do our best by working hard to attain greater heights but we have to be patient if it's not happening yet.

[red4slash]

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?

Nowadays, show off seems to be a trend in lifestyle, but I think that in this case, we don't need to deceive ourselves by exaggerating what we do in order to be recognized by others.

This kind of thing will only feel exhausting, even though from an ego perspective, it is very possible for anyone to do this. But in the end, when we examine it further, it is actually just deceiving ourselves with false satisfaction.

Looking up as a form of motivation so that we are more challenged to be able to provide a decent life for ourselves, as others above us do, is indeed very good, but on the other hand, we must also be able to look down and be grateful for what we have, which may not be available to others below us. So, what is the point of trying to show off just for the sake of ego, because in the end, this will only shackle ourselves.