Hello, everybody. How are you? This is the Other People Show. I'm Brad Listy, and I am here in Los Angeles. Thank you for tuning in. I appreciate that.

Today on the program, my guest is Austin Cleon, New York Times bestselling author of a trilogy

of illustrated books about creativity in the digital age.

The way to be new in a lot of ways is to go back farther than other people are going.

I've always felt like, especially in

publishing, like that's a really powerful thing. The past is a place that you find the future.

All right. That's Austin Cleon. New York Times bestselling author of a trio of books on creativity in the digital age, a trilogy.

Those books are entitled, respectively, steal like an artist, show your work, and keep going.

Austin Cleon is also the author of Newspaper Blackout, a collection of poetry made by redacting the newspaper with a permanent marker.

Steel Like an Artist is now available from Workman Publishing in a beautiful 10th Anniversary edition.

I have my copy sitting right here.

It's a lovely book.

And a very helpful one for creative people of any stripe.

This is Austin Cleon's second time on the Other People podcast.

We talked all the way back in 2014. It seems like a

century ago in episode 304. And I'm very happy to have him back on the show to celebrate 10 years

of Steel Like an Artist and to share with me some of the insights that he has gained through the years in his

study of creativity and creative people. A study that now spans three books that have sold over

a million copies worldwide. My hope with this episode is that it will serve as a nice shot in the arm for those of you listening who are working on your own creative projects.

Whether it's a book or a script of some kind or a visual art piece, whatever it happens to be.

Austin Cleon's books are a wonderful trove of distilled wisdom.

And I really love these books.

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