“Mushfake” is turning something you have, into something better than you don’t have. A “Mushfake Discourse” involves strategies to make do with what you have, and to make up what you don’t have. I see this as one of the essential elements from Cuddy’s catchphrase “Fake it till you become it”. Gee states that practicing “Mushfake resistance” and using meta-knowledge are successful for students. This is because they gain the skill of “psyching out” their interviewers into making them believe they are well versed in a certain topic. I think this is a good practice. People respond well to confidence. Seeing someone who is confident, you usually can assume they know what they are talking about. If you teach students to act confident, eventually they will actually be confident.
Fish are friends not food
