I guess the who idea of "fake it till you make it" can fall under this idea because once we start thinking how to do something we have to physically think of what we have to do then after a while it just happens. I would say I am a great experiment to look at, I started off not liking any type of science at all and then one day just started to fake the idea that I liked it, picking up random books, doing random research and so on. At that point I did not really care about science but as I did these random acts I slowly began to find everything I did a lot more interesting and not I am studying electrical engineering at university, I use to have a 60-70 average in high school up until the last year where this all happened and I became passionate about something that I could careless about in the beginning, worked day and night and brought my marks to be around 80-90. All this even though I could simply take over the well run, high income family business, which I was planning on doing before and now I genuinely love to learn new things and get a better understanding of topics. The funny thing is now I want to transfer to a physics major because I just want to learn the basics. I honestly do not know why I did this or even for what but now I came to notice that everything I do subconsciously leads to me learning more. For example I have very strong urges to ask questions, if I do not ask them they haunt me so I have to write them down. This is just what you could say I had undergone though the years "brain washing" myself.
btw - the reasons as to why I did this were pointless compared to the amount of work I had to put in, I still wonder why I did it but I am glad I did.
Sorry if it sounds like I rambled on, just thought I could share an experience, if you guys have any questions about this leave a comment or even email me.