Not quite. I'm very familiar with the concept of "fake it till you make it", but I don't think it works as much as its proponents claim. Perhaps it can have a similar effect internally, sometimes.

But the approach I'm talking about is not about "faking", but rather operating _as if_ something really is true, because it might be, or might become so by your acting that way.

In some ways it's the other way around; you're operating as if the rest of the world is behind/wrong and you're forging ahead while waiting for it to catch up.