Austin Kleon | How to Keep Going When You're Tempted to Quit

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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In this episode of Unmistakable Creative, we delve into the mind of Austin Kleon, a New York Times bestselling author known for his unique perspective on creativity in the digital age. Austin shares his insights on how to keep going when you're tempted to quit, a topic he explores in-depth in his book, "Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Time and Bad".

Austin Kleon's work is a beacon for artists and creatives who find themselves at crossroads, feeling defeated or lost. He encourages us to stay true to ourselves, remain focused, and keep our creative fires burning, even in the face of adversity. His books, including "Steal Like An Artist" and "Show Your Work!" have been translated into dozens of languages and have sold over a million copies worldwide.

In this enlightening conversation, Austin offers a roadmap to capturing, organizing, and retrieving knowledge effortlessly, supercharging productivity, and ensuring that no good idea ever slips away. He has been featured on NPR’s Morning Edition, PBS Newshour, and The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. His work has been called “brilliant” by New York Magazine, and he has been dubbed “positively one of the most interesting people on the Internet” by The Atlantic. Tune in to this episode to learn from Austin's wisdom and experience and discover how to keep going when you're tempted to quit.

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0:00.0	I just want people to fall in love with the basics again.
0:05.8	I want people to fall in love with what it's like to get a sentence, right?
0:10.8	I want people to know what it's like to watch the ink come out of the brush and lay on
0:16.9	the page wet in the sunshine.
0:18.9	I mean, I'm not trying to make the big, you know, but what it feels like to nail a piece
0:24.8	when you're, you know, playing the piano, when you finally get this bar right, you know,
0:30.0	it's just that to just to fall in love with the real basics of it again, the feeling it
0:36.9	gives you when you're doing it and not everything around you.
0:44.8	I'm Srinie Rao and this is the unmistakable creative podcast where you get a window into
0:49.1	the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds, started movements, built
0:53.8	driving businesses, written best selling books and created insanely interesting art.
0:58.2	For more, check out our 500 episode archive at unmistakablecreative.com.
1:04.6	My mission at unmistakable creative is to bring you conversations with insanely interesting
1:08.5	people, but that's not all.
1:10.5	It's also to help you become one of them.
1:13.1	I've never met a person that doesn't have creative ideas, but I've met a lot of people
1:17.8	who haven't figured out how to bring them to life.
1:20.7	And even if you have very little time, no experience, and no idea where to start, with
1:25.1	very few of the right skills and systems, you can create and sustain real progress, and
1:30.6	I can teach you how to do that.
1:32.4	That's one of the reasons we launched unmistakable prime, our monthly subscription, and for the
1:36.6	first time, we're offering a free two week trial.
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