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A favorite expression of us in the entertainment industry is “fake it ’til you make it”.

I used to be a huge fan of this phrase. Today, I’m losing a lot of my old appreciation for it.

Two reasons:

If you’re learning, then by nature you don’t really know what you’re doing. If you knew what you were doing, you wouldn’t be learning. So I’m always trying to “fake it”.
At some points, you can’t really fake it. You either know it or you don’t. If you need to know your stuff, people who do know it will know you don’t.