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I've always pretended to be <X> in order to get whatever skill I've needed. I just call it "putting on hats". I learned to dance by pretending to be a dancer, I learned to sing by pretending to be a singer. When I teach, I pretend to be a teacher, and when I lead I pretend to be a leader (these last two actually came a lot easier to me when I was teaching hooping than now when I'm teaching rationality stuffs, and I haven't really sat down to figure out why. I probably should though, because I am significantly better at <X> when I can pretend to be it. And I highly value being better at these specific skills right now.)
I had always thought everyone did this, but now I see I might be generalizing from one example.
I learnt skills in high-school acting class that I use daily in my job as a teacher. It would be a little much to say that I'm method acting when I teach —I am a teacher in real life, after all—, but my personality is noticeably different (more extroverted, for one thing). It's draining, however; that's the downside.