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• Show your work, and when the right people show up, pay close attention to them, because they'll have a lot to show you.

  Austin Kleon

  People, Attention, Pay

  Austin Kleon (2014). “Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered”, p.199, Workman Publishing

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• Be nice. (The world is a small town.)

  Austin Kleon

  Nice, World, Towns

  "8 Questions with Best Selling Author Austin Kleon". Interview with David W. Wright, sterlingandstone.net.

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• The best advice is not to write what you know, it's to write what you like.

  Austin Kleon

  Writing, Advice, Best Advice

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.47, Workman Publishing

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• Travel makes the world look new, and when the world looks new, our brains work harder.

  Austin Kleon

  Hard Work, Brain, Looks

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.94, Workman Publishing

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• The only way to find your voice is to use it

  Austin Kleon

  Voice, Use, Way

  Austin Kleon (2014). “Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered”, p.21, Workman Publishing

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• There’s an economic theory out there that if you take the incomes of your five closest friends and average them, the resulting number will be pretty close to your own income.
  I think the same thing is true of idea incomes. You’re only going to be as good as the stuff you surround yourself with.

  Austin Kleon

  Thinking, Numbers, Average

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.13, Workman Publishing

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• There's a balance between what you want to give the world and what it needs. If you're lucky, your work is in the middle.

  Austin Kleon

  Giving, Balance, Lucky

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• Read deeply. Stay open. Continue to wonder.

  Austin Kleon

  Wonder

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• Inertia is the death of creativity

  Austin Kleon

  Creativity, Inertia

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• Google everything. I mean everything. Google your dreams, Google your problems. Don’t ask a question before you Google it. You’ll either find the answer or you’ll come up with a better question.

  Austin Kleon

  Dream, Mean, Google

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• If I'd waited to know who I was or what I was about before I started "being creative," well, I'd still be sitting around trying to figure myself out instead of making things. In my experience, it's in the act of making things and doing our work that we figure out who we are.

  Austin Kleon

  Inspirational, Creative, Trying

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.27, Workman Publishing

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• The thing is: It takes a lot of energy to be creative. You don't have that energy if you waste it on other stuff.

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  Creative, Energy, Stuff

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.119, Workman Publishing

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• Your brain gets too comfortable in your everyday surroundings. You need to make it uncomfortable. You need to spend some time in another land, among people that do things differently than you. Travel makes the world look new, and when the world looks new, our brains work harder.

  Austin Kleon

  Hard Work, Land, People

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.94, Workman Publishing

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• Become a documentarian of what you do.

  Austin Kleon

  Austin Kleon (2014). “Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered”, p.41, Workman Publishing

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• Usually, when we talk about creativity, it's about self-expression, which is great, but for work to be art or design, there has to be someone on the other end. The audience makes the work come alive.

  Austin Kleon

  Art, Creativity, Self

  Interview with Ryan and Tina Essmaker, thegreatdiscontent.com. April 1, 2014.

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• Nothing is more paralyzing than the idea of limitless possibilities.

  Austin Kleon

  Ideas, Limitless Possibilities, Limitless

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.137, Workman Publishing

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• If you ever find you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.

  Austin Kleon

  Inspirational, Needs, Rooms

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.104, Workman Publishing

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• When people give advice, they're really just talking to themselves in the past.

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  Past, Talking, People

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.1, Workman Publishing

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• Genealogy of ideas. You don’t get to pick your family, but you can pick your teachers and you can pick your friends and you can pick the music you listen to and you can pick the books you read and you can pick the movies you see.

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  Teacher, Book, Ideas

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.11, Workman Publishing

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• Amateurs know that contributing something is better than contributing nothing.

  Austin Kleon

  Knows, Contributing

  Austin Kleon (2014). “Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered”, p.16, Workman Publishing

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• That’s the thing you have to understand about the whole process of art (or the work that we do) – you’re only half of the equation. It’s an interaction between you and the person who’s going to experience the work. The person who’s going to experience the work is bringing just as much to it and is just as important as you are.

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  Art, Important, Half

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• You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life. You are the sum of your influences. The German writer Goethe said, "We are shaped and fashioned by what we love."

  Austin Kleon

  Facts, Influence, Said

  "Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative". Book by Austin Kleon, February 28, 2012.

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• Be boring. (It’s the only way to get work done.)

  Austin Kleon

  Done, Way, Boring

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• We're always being told 'find your voice.' When I was younger, I never really knew what this meant. I used to worry a lot about voice, wondering if I had my own. But now I realize that the only way to find your voice is to use it. It's hardwired, built into you. Talk about the things you love. Your voice will follow.

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  Love You, Writing, Voice

  Austin Kleon (2014). “Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered”, p.21, Workman Publishing

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• The artist is a collector. Not a hoarder, mind you, there's a difference: Hoarders collect indiscriminately, artists collect selectively. They only collect things that they really love.

  Austin Kleon

  Artist, Differences, Mind

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.13, Workman Publishing

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