In both this semester’s HES Enlightenment: Horizons of Human Potential and Flourishing course and Anna Leptikon’s “The Unbearable Lightness of Lightness”, there is the idea of proleptic rationality, which is akin to faith. We must accept that what we are capable of largely isn’t knowable until after we become the type of person that has the capacity to reach our potential. We must trust that which is not known. This might be like fake it until you make it but I prefer Brendan Leonard’s take: make it till you make it.