Tuesday, July 21, 2020

“Fake It Till You Make It” – And Other Potentially Catastrophic Advice – Simpleology Blog

“Fake It Till You Make It” – And Other Potentially Catastrophic Advice – Simpleology Blog: As William James, the father of modern Psychology, observed …

“Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can. So to feel brave, act as if we�were�brave, use all our will to that end, and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear”