21 Times ‘Fake It Til You Make It’ Completely Backfired
‘It turns out sign language is a lot harder than I realized…’
Surprising no one, the adage “fake it til you make it” doesn’t always work out. In fact, the success rate isn’t very high at all, and we should probably consider retiring the phrase altogether. Until then, though, people will keep on with all that faking it — like the Redditor who took a bilingual position as a bank teller in a Hispanic neighborhood despite only knowing eight or nine Spanish words. After the first week, their boss sat them down to have a conversation in Spanish, making it their last week as well.
To that end, other Redditors have shared the tales of times they faked it and certainly didn’t make it, and it’s beautiful that human beings can be so delusional.
