Austin Kleon On Maintaining Healthy Habits, Growing As Parents, And Interrogating The Stoic Virtues
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🗓️ 22 July 2023
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Ryan speaks with his longtime friend fellow father Austin Kleon during a stop along his book tour for The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Parenting, Love, and Raising Great Kids. They discuss the life habits that they maintain in order to help fuel their creative success, why the most effective form of parenting is indirect, what parenting skills they are working on right now, how adopting a daily journaling habit vastly improved their lives, and more.
Austin Kleon is a writer, author, artist, speaker, and blogger whose work focuses on creativity in the modern world. Although 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, Austin has spoken for organizations such as Pixar, Google, SXSW, TEDx, and The Economist. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife and sons. You can follow his work at austinkleon.com, Instagram @austinkleon, and Twitter @austinkleon.
You can listen to a few of Austin’s other appearances on The Daily Stoic YouTube channel:
- Ryan Holiday & Austin Kleon Discuss Stoicism, Creativity, Journaling & More
- Ryan Holiday and Austin Kleon On How To Increase Creativity With Stoicism
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic. Each weekday we bring you a meditation |
| 0:09.7 | inspired by the ancient Stoics, something to help you live up to those four Stoic virtues |
| 0:15.1 | of courage, justice, temperance and wisdom. And then here on the weekend we take a deeper |
| 0:21.2 | dive into those same topics. We interview Stoic philosophers, we explore at length how |
| 0:28.7 | these Stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the challenging issues of our time. |
| 0:35.9 | Here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down, |
| 0:41.3 | be sure to take some time to think, to go for a walk, to sit with your journal, |
| 0:46.8 | and most importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring. |
| 0:50.8 | Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast. One of my favorite |
| 1:06.0 | people in the whole world is today's guest, Austin Cleon. I loved his books keep going. I loved |
| 1:11.7 | show your work. I love steel like an artist. There's some of the most popular books we sell at the |
| 1:16.8 | painted porch here in Master of Texas. And I was actually just writing about Austin the other day. |
| 1:23.7 | He gave me this really important advice when I was moving to Austin thinking about having kids. |
| 1:28.1 | He said, work, family, scene, pick two. And I think about that all the time. I think about it when |
| 1:34.1 | I think about saying yes to something, when I'm leaning towards saying no to something, what's |
| 1:38.1 | important? What do I prioritize? If you try to have it all, you end up losing some of the most |
| 1:43.6 | important things in the world to you, often for things that are not that important to you. |
| 1:47.7 | So I brought you a couple of weeks ago. I brought you my conversation at Barnes and Noble with |
| 1:51.8 | the one and only Casey Neistat. I also did one here in Austin at the Barnes and Noble at the |
| 1:56.9 | Arbor Freedom, which I'd actually never been to. It's a cool bookstore. That's actually a pretty |
| 2:01.9 | cool Barnes and Noble. The staff was great. Signed a bunch of books while I was there. Certainly not |
| 2:06.5 | anywhere close to my worst book signing. My worst was at a Barnes and Noble in Hawaii. I think on Maui |
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