Phrasal Verb - Make it

Real English Examples

We'd get to school and ask each other, "Dude, what level did you make it to?

The Super Mario Effect - Tricking Your Brain into Learning More | Mark Rober | TEDxPenn

(On stage) MR: Fake it till you make it.

The Super Mario Effect - Tricking Your Brain into Learning More | Mark Rober | TEDxPenn

Their outlook made it so they wanted to keep trying and learning.

The Super Mario Effect - Tricking Your Brain into Learning More | Mark Rober | TEDxPenn

And see, the software industry, with Microsoft, and Lotus, and WordPerfect made it real easy.

Steve Jobs President & CEO, NeXT Computer Corp and Apple. MIT Sloan Distinguished Speaker Series

You need all the objects that come with NeXTSTEP to make it work.

Steve Jobs President & CEO, NeXT Computer Corp and Apple. MIT Sloan Distinguished Speaker Series

Educationally, he had the right credentials to make it big in the computer industry, because he dropped out of Reed College.

Steve Jobs President & CEO, NeXT Computer Corp and Apple. MIT Sloan Distinguished Speaker Series

Let's go make it happen.

Steve Jobs President & CEO, NeXT Computer Corp and Apple. MIT Sloan Distinguished Speaker Series

And we also see a lot of not quite that clarity of movement, but some movement in the Windows and PC world again towards taking what they have now and making it portable.

Steve Jobs President & CEO, NeXT Computer Corp and Apple. MIT Sloan Distinguished Speaker Series

Well, Microsoft has made it easy.

Steve Jobs President & CEO, NeXT Computer Corp and Apple. MIT Sloan Distinguished Speaker Series

But making it hit is about more than just doing what the Muse tells you to do.

Seth Godin - Akimbo - Hitsville

We should make it so that people can subscribe to it.

Seth Godin - Akimbo - Hitsville

Something that people are going to see over and over again, because if we are, we should build it for them, we should make it more complicated more interesting.

Seth Godin - Akimbo - Hitsville

AND THEN I HIT THE FIRST BRICK WALL, BECAUSE THEY MADE IT VERY CLEAR THAT UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WERE FACULTY MEMBERS ALLOWED TO FLY WITH THE TEAMS.

Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

AND THAT WAS WHEN I THOUGHT, "OKAY, MAYBE I CAN MAKE IT.

Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

BUT THEY MADE IT EASY ON ME.

Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

And so I want to say to you, don't fake it till you make it.

Your body language may shape who you are ~ Amy Cuddy

She comes back to me months later, and I realized that she had not just faked it till she made it, she had actually faked it till she became it.

Your body language may shape who you are ~ Amy Cuddy

So my main collaborator Dana Carney, who's at Berkeley, and I really wanted to know, can you fake it till you make it?

Your body language may shape who you are ~ Amy Cuddy

So I said, fake it till you make it.

Your body language may shape who you are ~ Amy Cuddy

Yes, you can make it more complicated than that (depending on how you treat pension contributions and so on) but it’s better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

Your % savings rate is the most important number

Make it easy for the right people to know that you’re the right guy.

Understanding business development ~ Seth Godin

There’s no template, no cookie cutter grind it out approach to making it work.

Understanding business development ~ Seth Godin

The buyer works hard to make it clear that she’s doing you a favor, and you need every dog and every pony available at all times (and you better be the cheapest).

Understanding business development ~ Seth Godin

In fact, you just need one rule: What you do is more important than how you do everything else, and doing something well does not make it important.

"Productivity" Tricks for the Neurotic, Manic-Depressive, and Crazy (Like Me) | Tim Ferriss

Technology hasn't just made it cheaper to build and distribute things, but faster too.

How People Get Rich Now ~ Paul Graham

Hedge funds and private equity firms existed in 1982, but none of their founders were rich enough yet to make it into the top 100.

How People Get Rich Now ~ Paul Graham

Committing violence against a part of you doesn’t make it go away — in fact, it will strengthen it.

The Counterintuitive Way to Create Change in Your Life ~ Zen Habits

To make your new action easier  to repeat and more likely to be picked up by   the toddler, try to make it pleasurable.

Change Your Life – One Tiny Step at a Time by Kurzgesagt

So if we want to change and introduce  a new behavior into our lives,   we can actually use these energy  saving mechanisms to make it easier.

Change Your Life – One Tiny Step at a Time by Kurzgesagt

Games make it very clear that you're improving by showing you that the experience bar is getting filled up.

I Increased My Productivity 10x - By Turning My Life Into a Game by Better Than Yesterday

If you made it this far into the video, let me just say that you're awesome.

I Increased My Productivity 10x - By Turning My Life Into a Game by Better Than Yesterday

However progress in real life is usually not that obvious and you must make it visible yourself.

I Increased My Productivity 10x - By Turning My Life Into a Game by Better Than Yesterday

I'm still doing the same boring activity, but the time pressure ramps up the difficulty and makes it more fun.

I Increased My Productivity 10x - By Turning My Life Into a Game by Better Than Yesterday

So, essentially, when looking at successful entities, I should also sign in the ones that didn't make it.

Survivorship Bias

You're focusing only on those who've ridden off into the sunset of success, while crossing out the failures that didn't make it.

Survivorship Bias