Fake It Until You Make It

Patti Smith

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Patti Smith is a musician who wrote the book "Just Kids".Steal Like An Artist By Austin Kleon speaks about a phase called "Fake it till you make it"  on page 30 of his reader ,which has two ways of reading it.
Either "Pretend to be something youre not until you are-fake it until youre successful,until everybody sees you the way you want them to;or pretend to be making something until you actually make something "
Patti depicted this concept in her book Just kids which is about two kids who moved to New York to become  artists and she depicted it by starting off how these kids made something out of everything they had.They made every useful object around them something creative to work with.She states that "Creative Work is a kind of theatre" you need to make a play out of it that would entertain not only yourself but the viewers around you. She  also states you have everything around you but its what you do with them. Speaking of how creative work is a kind of theatre it describes how the stage would be a normal ordinary table, the props were books and pencils and the script would be the time only because you set your timeframe of where you want to be.
(AustinKleon,Steal like an artist.2012:30)


The way Patti Smith incorporates the phrase "fake it till you make it" is that make something of what you have until you can be where you want to be which relates to her book "Just Kids", they just had a dream like any other kid would but its how they worked with what they had to make their dream come true, until people could notice what they have done they had to consistently work with what they had.
Work on something you have which is known as working with your hands-something that most talented and so called "creative " people don't do, but the main aim of it is to have a plan and pretend you working on something huge until you have the courage to display it or haven't even worked on it yet setting the minds of the people of what's yet to come.

In my opinion  I think that fake it till you make it is a concept which is useful and part of a learning curve,because its about you, its about your timeframe in life, its about letting people think you predictable but you not. Its about being what creative is according to you, its about being completely unoriginal but having complete fun with it,Its about starting somewhere and ending up elsewhere. The kids in the novel wont the greatest artists but they learnt how to be by using their imagination of  their own and how they could just set an image of what being an artist was like.
Its about acting  creatively but thinking differently.