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Seth Godin
Whatever happened to 'fake it till you make it'?
Duelling quotes!
Aristotle
Another translation
My experience in the circus bears this out.
To learn to juggle you have someone tell you what your mind and hands need to do when juggling, and you throw the balls in the direction you know they need to go, and you keep doing it (being corrected as often as you can find a better juggler) until you stop dropping them and can keep your pattern solid indefinitely.
To learn to handstand you get upside down do whatever you can to find out what balancing feels like. You can't feel it unless you're doing it.
How cute. Also, on a related note:
He sees you when you're sleeping
He knows when you're awake
He knows if you've been bad or good
So be good for goodness sake
Oh, you better watch out
You better not cry
Better not pout
I'm telling you why
Santa Clause is coming to town
ie. I think the quote is unhealthily idealistic. An exhortation for good behaviour by means of conveying a false model of reality.
HPMOR demonstrates:
1) People usually don't recognize faked genius as faked when they see it; they don't realize what's missing from "genius" characters in their fiction.
2) However, if you then show them real genius, they can recognize it as new, different, better, and important (though they may not realize what the added ingredient was).
This applies to stereotypical fiction 'genius' when compared to an actually clever fictional character. Yet I'm not so sure it applies to gaining real world reputation. In many fields it can be demonstrated that being recognized as a brilliant expert is not actually strongly correlated with domain performance but instead determined by social factors.
If you want to get a reputation for being brilliant gain a solid baseline proficiency in an area and then actually become brilliant at politics. Or, of course, choose one of the few fields where objective performance is hard to hide from.
I knew you'd react to it that way.
I disagree.
Sure, but unless you registered it beforehand at somewhere like http://predictionbook.com/, I'm afraid it doesn't count. Sorry! Maybe next time.
You were thinking of me as you wrote that? I'm flattered. :)
Depends on what I was thinking. :-)
Surprisingly enough it doesn't.