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Manufactured Authority is the transformation of a felt weakness or anxious not-knowing into a bootstrapped status and professional role, turning the very lack into a platform of power. Expertise here is seen as a social signal, credentials as conventions, authority is produced by recognition. ↬

We’ve been sold the idea that successful people are those who maintain perfect consistency through sheer willpower. This is a beautiful lie that keeps us trapped in cycles of shame and absurd overcorrection every time we stumble — as if missing Wednesday means you should give up until January.