L17 · Lens
Acting as if
Act the attitude you want before you feel it; voluntary action reshapes feeling and belief.
Use: Inertia, low mood, insecurity, reluctance.
Boundary: Not suppression of feeling; it is choosing the next action while letting feelings follow.
Cues
Showing 4 of 4 cues
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
“When someone fervently wants for a very long time to seem something, it will eventually be difficult for that person to be anything else. The profession of almost everyone, even of the artist, begins with hypocrisy, with an imitating from outside and a mimicking of what works effectively.”
“To realize here and now that our innermost personality is something we create as we go along rather than something we discover lurking in our insides or imposed upon [us] from without.”
“Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain.”