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This. Almost everyone I know has said, "Fake it 'til you make it" and "When in Rome..."
Yeah but at what point is one supposed to have "made it"? I've been faking it for years, still waiting.
We'll never be perfect. There's always room for learning, which means emulating new behaviors to adapt to a changing environment. It's probably a good idea to look back at how you've changed over time and appreciate the habits that work well for you that you don't have to think about anymore. I'm probably a little over the line of assuming much about a stranger on the internet, if not past the point of starting to project aspects that are unique to my own experience. Still, I hope there's enough commonality among us all for this comment to be encouraging if not technically helpful in some way.