Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Austin Kleon)
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Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Austin Kleon)
figure out what to leave out, so they can concentrate on what’s really important to them.
Austin Kleon • Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
‘What’s the best thing that happened today?’ it actually forces a certain kind of cheerful retrospection that pulls up from the recent past things to write about that you wouldn’t otherwise think about.
Austin Kleon • Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
Who you marry is the most important decision you’ll ever make. And “marry well” doesn’t just mean your life partner—it also means who you do business with, who you befriend, who you choose to be around.
Austin Kleon • Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
You can’t go looking for validation from external sources. Once you put your work into the world, you have no control over the way people will react to it.
Austin Kleon • Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
Make stuff every day. Know you’re going to suck for a while.
Austin Kleon • Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
You have to find a place that feeds you—creatively, socially, spiritually, and literally.
Austin Kleon • Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
A logbook isn’t necessarily a diary or a journal, it’s just a little book in which you list the things you do every day.
Austin Kleon • Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
if you love different things, you just keep spending time with them. “Let them talk to each other. Something will begin to happen.”
Austin Kleon • Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
You’re only going to be as good as the people you surround yourself with.