Austin Kleon on How to Stay Creative

Austin Kleon is a writer, artist, and speaker. Austin also speaks about creativity for organizations such as Pixar, Google, SXSW, and many others. He is the author of many books, including Steal Like an Artist, and Newspaper Blackout. In this episode, Eric and Austin discuss his book, Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad But wait – there’s more! The episode is not quite over!! We continue the conversation and you can access this exclusive content right in your podcast player feed. Head over to our Patreon page and pledge to donate just $10 a month. It’s that simple and we’ll give you good stuff as a thank you! In This Interview, Austin Kleon and I Discuss How to Stay Creative and …

His book, Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad

How his deep work has usually originated from a dark place

Life is about the balance between the light and dark in us

His long term pessimism and short term optimism

Making peace with things not ever getting easier and learning to enjoy the now.

How there are no perfect conditions in life so no sense waiting or worrying about what’s next

If/And statements and how life is not linear in that way

His reflection on the book her wrote 10 years ago

Trying to get back to the beginner’s mind

Seeking curiosity over wisdom

Ordinary life + extra attention = the extraordinary

Paying attention by drawing, writing, reading poetry, or walking

Trying to view things as an artist might

Forget the noun, do the verb

The importance of having a hobbies

How energy can be found in books and works of art

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