To get creative ideas flowing:
10 significant texts:
- perks of being a wall flower
- Maze runner
- Ammonite
- breaking bad
- the outsiders
- fault in our stars
- shadow and bone
- we were liars
- tuck everlasting
Connections between the list:
- things that make me cry
- aesthetically filmed/environment
- things I was OBSESSED with
- strong friendships
- rebellion
Austin Kleon wrote multiple books called 'steal like an artist', 'show your work!', 'keep going' and 'newspaper blackout'. He speaks for organizations such as Pixar, Google, SXSW, TEDx, and The Economist. He used to worked as a librarian, a web designer, and an advertising copywriter.
Steal like an artist involves:
- Steal like an artist.
- Don’t wait until you know who you are to get started.
- Write the book you want to read.
- Use your hands.
- Side projects and hobbies are important.
- The secret: do good work and share it with people.
- Geography is no longer our master.
- Be nice. (The world is a small town.)
- Be boring. (It’s the only way to get work done.)
- Creativity is subtraction.
Show your work involves:
- You don’t have to be a genius.
- Think process, not product.
- Share something small every day.
- Open up your cabinet of curiosities.
- Tell good stories.
- Teach what you know.
- Don’t turn into human spam.
- Learn to take a punch.
- Sell out.
- Stick around.
Keep going involves:
- Every day is Groundhog Day.
- Build a bliss station.
- Forget the noun, do the verb.
- Make gifts.
- The ordinary + extra attention = the extraordinary
- Slay the art monsters.
- You’re allowed to change your mind.
- When in doubt, tidy up.
- Demons hate fresh air.
- Plant your garden.
Together the three books make up a trilogy that teaches you how to be more creative your everyday life and get your work noticed and appreciated. He also has this philosophy of asking yourself 'what if...' to get ideas flowing and just go with whatever comes to mind and see where you end up.
Websites used to research:
About Austin Kleon - Austin Kleon
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