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Steal Like An Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Austin Kleon)

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  DESCRIPTION  When Austin Clone was asked to speak to students at Broome Community College in upstate New York in the spring of 2011, he wrote a simple list that often reflected the things he wished he had heard when he was his age: "Steal like an artist." Unless you don't wait until you know to start building; Write the book you want to read; use your hands; Side projects are important. Do a good job and put it where people can see it; Geography is not our master. Be kind (the world is a small city); being boring (it's the only way to get things done); Create the offer. After the show, he uploaded the script and slides to his popular blog, where it quickly went viral. Kleon has now expanded its original statement using short, concise, straightforward, visually interactive and illustrated book exercise blocks for writers, artists, entrepreneurs, designers, photographers, musicians, anyone seeking creativity - art, work or life - in the digital age and there are those