Fake It Till You Make It https://psychcentral.com/blog/fake-it-till-you-make-it/

Fake It Till You Make It https://psychcentral.com/blog/fake-it-till-you-make-it/

• Anticipatory anxiety is typically more severe than the actual experience. We tend to make the unknown more difficult than it actually is. It's not unusual to hear people say (once a scary encounter is over) that "It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be." When you "fake it till you make it," you step into your fears, get immersed in the experience and enlarge the size of your comfort zone. If, on the other hand, you shy away from having new experiences, you decrease the size of your comfort zone.