It feels much more like an actionable blog article that you can get through, and have it influence your day and life versus a long winded book that’s challenging to read. Once you have finished reading the book at the very end, there is a section of the book named “What’s Next?” giving you some action steps to do, such as take a walk, start a swipe file, which is explained within the book, go to the library, buy a notebook, get yourself a calendar, start sharing stuff, it has some great recommendations on where to go next and I think that’s a unique end to the book. It’s a great book that’s short and easy to read yet very insightful. I think this is nonsense, maybe you just need to be boring and focus on creating good ideas and getting the work done. People these days are driven by their popularity and how often their posts on social media have been seen, how big their followings are. I think this message is great as we live in a culture that’s all about likes and popularity, and you need to be visible and fancy with your approach and work. Maybe you have to be bored so to speak, stay at home in your comfy clothes and just nail down and get the work done. The creative output of what you’re going to do, the thing that you’re going to produce is going to be more from your perspective. This is where the thinking begins, you start thinking like them, you put all of that creative thought process into your thought bowl, Stir It up and this is stealing like an artist. Then after that find those people and figure out who inspires them and then take all of that inspiration and piece it together.īy doing this you’re looking past the actual work itself into the thinking of, why did these people make these creative decisions? “There’s nothing new Under the Sun.”Ī good way of copying or good way of Stealing Like an Artist would be to find something that you like, find a designer, artist or poet or whatever it is, and figure out who inspires them. There’s a good kind of stealing and a bad kind of stealing and the truth is everybody steals because nobody’s original like it says in Ecclesiastes. What does it mean to steal like an artist? The author Austin explains it like this:

Austin Kleon also outlines where to find inspiration, unlocking your creativity, and stealing like an artist.

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