How to Fake It Till You Feel It

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I sit down with UFC Hall of Famer and VP of Athlete Development, Forrest Griffin, to talk about humor, preparation, and why confidence comes from doing the work. Forrest shares how he learned to use humor as a tool, what it means to “fake it till you feel it,” and why getting your mind out of the way is often the best thing you can do under pressure. We talk about setting purpose-driven goals, tracking growth, and trusting the body’s instincts. From training sessions to life lessons, Forrest brings sharp insights, quick wit, and a brutally honest look at what it takes to keep growing.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Office Hours.
0:01.0	I'm David Meltzer, and our first guest is a repeat offender.
0:04.9	He's a Hall of Famer, like some other people here on the desk.
0:09.0	He's an amazing athlete.
0:10.3	He's the VP of Athlete Development for the UFC today, a legend of the UFC, but more importantly, he's a dear friend.
0:18.1	Forrest Griffin, welcome to Office Hours.
0:20.5	Thank you so much for having me thank
0:21.8	you guys it's awesome okay i got to ask you you don't i'm sure these guys are going the other way
0:26.4	but i've gotten to know you and i know we talk about your sense of humor and a lot of people
0:33.6	may or may not know that you have one of the greatest sense of humorers or one of the quickest
0:37.8	thinkers that I know. You can, you should be a host on tremendous amount of shows and forget
0:43.9	the athlete development side of things. Have you always utilize humor in good times and bad
0:52.7	times? Is humor a mechanism for you? Is it just innately in your
0:56.4	genetics to be so funny? So that's a super interesting question. No, I didn't decide I was funny
1:04.0	to like my senior year of high school. So I had no sense of humor at all. And then I was like,
1:09.5	oh, wait, this is how humor works.
1:11.6	And I kind of just understand it.
1:14.0	So I use it.
1:15.7	It's just like a tool.
1:16.8	Like if I'm like, I can be funny if I want, but it's not like naturally me.
1:21.6	Wow.
1:22.1	I'm seeing.
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