thinking about performative phenomena that aren't so much fake-it-til-you-make-it as that faking it *is* making it, which i have the impulse to call autoveridical example in mind is if you can successfully falsify courage and act despite not feeling courageous, that *is* courage
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The presence of fear is a form of insurance against reckless action (obviously imperfect). Disassociative "courageous" behaviour lacks this emotional insurance so we use different words - brave, bold, reckless, cocky, whatevs - depending on the emotion/action combination.
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