I've always told myself, "People do this all the time, and they succeeded." It's kind of like "act as if". Also, I've taken, "Agree and escalate" from improv

I've always told myself, "People do this all the time, and they succeeded." It's kind of like "act as if". Also, I've taken, "Agree and escalate" from improv and applied it to my real life, with mixed results.