How to Convincingly Fake Confidence, Happiness and Other Necessary Feelings in the Workplace
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by Ross McCammon
Nov 01, 2015
4 minutes
We fake it in meetings. We fake it over email. We fake it when we’re envious of someone else’s success. We fake it in the elevator when we ask Kyle if he has any weekend plans. The professional world’s a stage, and we’re all actors pretending to care about how Kyle spends his free time.
The question is: How much do the roles in which you cast yourself differ from who you actually are? Because if they differ a lot, you’re going to cause more problems for yourself than if you’d just behave authentically. But if they differ just a little -- if you can fake it in a way
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