Faking it until you make it is an approach used in riding horses. When it isn't perfect, you pretend it is and keep going. Retaining the focus on where you are going is key. Drop focus and you drop concentration. Some have interpreted faking it until you make it as faking it AND you'll make it. Definitely some confusion there and not the meaning. Wondering if you've come across various interpretations.
My friend @Alex Krasne would love this comment. She’s a dressage rider. What I’m hearing is that, in horsemanship, "fake it" means don't catastrophize the imperfection — keep your body and mind oriented toward the goal, because the horse reads your energy. So, “faking it” is not pretending to others but actually staying so deeply present to oneself.
That's different from social performance. Where we perform confidence outwardly until it becomes real. This is the popular culture version. This is the one that becomes a problem.
The key of course, is Onlyness. Don’t abandon yourself — stay in your own body, orient toward your own northstar. So I think you’re raising an important distinction: what are you faking for?
Exactly and a wonderful way of putting it. The horse goes where your focus is going... energy flows where attention goes... In a flow state of communication between horse and rider it is a shared focus. I crashed through the first fence of a line once and just kept looking ahead so the horse picked himself up and finished the line perfectly.. that's how I learned to be present with the goal. Horses have taught me a lot!
Faking it until you make it is an approach used in riding horses. When it isn't perfect, you pretend it is and keep going. Retaining the focus on where you are going is key. Drop focus and you drop concentration. Some have interpreted faking it until you make it as faking it AND you'll make it. Definitely some confusion there and not the meaning. Wondering if you've come across various interpretations.
My friend @Alex Krasne would love this comment. She’s a dressage rider. What I’m hearing is that, in horsemanship, "fake it" means don't catastrophize the imperfection — keep your body and mind oriented toward the goal, because the horse reads your energy. So, “faking it” is not pretending to others but actually staying so deeply present to oneself.
That's different from social performance. Where we perform confidence outwardly until it becomes real. This is the popular culture version. This is the one that becomes a problem.
The key of course, is Onlyness. Don’t abandon yourself — stay in your own body, orient toward your own northstar. So I think you’re raising an important distinction: what are you faking for?
Exactly and a wonderful way of putting it. The horse goes where your focus is going... energy flows where attention goes... In a flow state of communication between horse and rider it is a shared focus. I crashed through the first fence of a line once and just kept looking ahead so the horse picked himself up and finished the line perfectly.. that's how I learned to be present with the goal. Horses have taught me a lot!