“Always be closing.”  The famous sales term never really entered my vocabulary until I started the http://www.squidoo.com/Alternative-MBA.
It feels like a deceitful, slimy idea. Inauthentic. Having an agenda, always on the lookout for the next opportunity.
Watching http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TROhlThs9qY
I felt two conflicting emotions about this idea. On one hand, I’m turned off by dogma and the negative way of motivating [...]

That wasn’t a typo. I’m just averse to writing the phrase “fake it till you make it.” I’m also averse to hearing it and saying it to others. It never feels right, even when I know what it’s supposed to convey.
I understand the idea behind it, and agree wholeheartedly that you should believe in yourself. [...]