Austin Kleon on Fueling Artistic Ambition
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🗓️ 26 February 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Austin Kleon joins Ryan to talk about unleashing creative energy, the power of hobbies, and why he believes we’ve been trained to be machine-like in today’s world. Austin talks about the driving force behind ambition, the culture of "cheap talk," and much more.
Austin Kleon is a writer, author, artist, speaker, and blogger. He is most known for his five New York Times bestselling books Steal Like An Artist:10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative, Show Your Work!, Keep Going, Steal Like An Artist Journal, and Newspaper Blackout.
You can follow his work at austinkleon.com, Instagram @austinkleon, and Twitter @austinkleon.
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