Fake it till you make it.

Here is another great page from Austin Kleon's Steal Like an Artist:

Have you ever heard of dramaturgy? It's a fancy term for something William Shakespeare spelled out in his play As You Like It about 400 years ago;

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts.

Another way to say this? Fake it till you make it.
I love this phrase. There are two ways to read it:
     1. Pretend to be something you're not until you are—
         fake it until you're successful, until everybody sees
         the way you want them to; or
     2. Pretend to be making something until you actually make something

I love both readings—you have to dress for the job you want, not the job you have, and you have to start doing the work you want to be doing.

I also love the book Just Kids by the musician Patti Smith. It's a story about how two friends who wanted to be artists moved to New York. You know how they learned to be artists?

"You start out
as a phony and
become real."
–Glenn O'Brien