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\n“Fake it till you make it” (also called “act as if”) is a common catchphrase that means to imitate confidence so that as the confidence produces success, it will generate real confidence. The purpose is to avoid getting stuck in a self fulfilling prophecy related to one’s fear of not being confident, e.g., by thinking, “I can’t ask that girl out because she would sense my lack of confidence.”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
and attributes it to such different areas like depression, alcohol dependency or rap music while this may be also motif also of a science career (while should not be confused with scientific breakthroughs). What about giving Nobel<\/a> prizes in Medicine and Physiology also to emergent youg MDs?<\/p>\n\n
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