How to become an expert branding guy (BASICALLY OVERNIGHT)

12 easy steps: 1. be young & stupid, and fall in love with branding 2. suck at it for years on end 3. get tired of sucking so you start getting better 4. share your work with others on the internet so they can judge, mock, and rip you a new one 5. realize they are right, and most of them are better than you 6. maintain a donkey-like stubbornness and keep creating 7. all the while being delusional and hallucinating daily about your future 8. get rejected by people/brands/businesses for years 9. keep creating, more out of spite than sheer ambition 10. find yourself in a place of peace since most of your former critics have already quit 11. blow up "overnight" because you walked the walk & talked the talk for years 12. get everyone to call you "lucky" & "cocky" and laugh at them all the way to the bank