Melody Fraud

Jack Rhysider· Host0:00

I've always liked the idea of fake it till you make it, where you act like someone you wanna be until you become them. This sometimes comes with imposter syndrome, but I think the antidote to that is just more experience. But how do you go from being a total beginner to confidently doing something? I often turn to the bookstore to help me there. But you know what book that's always bothered me? It's those For Dummies books, like the C Programming For Dummies, or the Complete Idiot's Guide. Even if I don't have a clue where to start, I would never buy one of those books because I don't consider myself a dummy or an idiot, because I wanna fake it till I make it, and I don't wanna fake being a dummy. I wanna be a great programmer, so a dummy's guide to programming is not the direction I wanna be going. I think what those books fail to do is they seem to target who you are now, not what you wanna become, and that was their failure, at least for me. I've bought tons of how-to books, but I will never buy one of those books. To me, the key to success is in the aspiration. I would instantly buy books that were titled How to Be an Amazing C Programmer, because that is what I wanna become. And the book could contain the exact same words as the other book that's C Programming For Dummies, but it would have an entirely different impact on me. Every time I saw the title, I'd feel like I'm becoming more and more like the person I wanna be, an amazing programmer, and that would give me that false sense of greatness, which is exactly what it's like to fake it till you make it. Because it's not about who