marketing is about getting others to pay for what you make them think you have to offer, though you may have nothing to offer.
3)...copies and all that
you may study, read, absorb, discuss, seek, and research all you want. but utill you've experienced life and have ideas and thoughts of your own, you are but someone else's copy.
it's nice to be a neatly done copy or a lovely work of art, but it's infinitely better to be original or to be the sculptor.
a mere actor no more, but a sript writer, editor, director, producer and even distributor.