Best of: How to Steal Like an Artist with Austin Kleon

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Join us on Unmistakable Creative for an inspiring conversation with Austin Kleon, a New York Times bestselling author known for his unique approach to creativity in the digital age. In this episode, Kleon shares his journey from a child who never stopped drawing to a bestselling author of books like 'Steal Like an Artist,' 'Show Your Work,' and 'Newspaper Blackouts.'

Discover how scheduling time to create can fuel a body of work and why Kleon found his best work after leaving school. Learn about the dance that all artists deal with when they have an audience and how to grow your audience while maintaining the integrity of your work.

Kleon also discusses why excessive self-awareness stifles our creativity and the importance of actively seeking influence and input for your work. Don't miss Kleon's unique definition of creativity and his belief that creativity is about combining two things that nobody thought of putting together.

Tune in to this episode to learn from one of the most influential voices in creativity today and gain insights that could transform your creative process.

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0:00.0	There's very few times in our adult lives where another adult gives you a pen and some paper or a marker and some newspapers and says you got 10 minutes make me something.
0:16.0	Mm-hmm.
0:18.0	And I am just always blown away whenever a group of adults does blackout poetry,
0:24.6	the results are amazing.
0:26.3	You know, you see people, you see that concentration
0:29.4	that comes on their faces, they look like kids again,
0:32.0	you know, kids when they're playing people
0:34.2	think oh kids playing what a great thing no kids are intensely serious when
0:38.3	they're playing you know like my son gets so frustrated and kind of zoomed in to what he's doing when he's playing.
0:46.5	Sometimes you wonder, like, is he torturing himself, you know?
0:51.2	But he takes his play so seriously you know he has this look of
0:55.2	concentration when he's like pushing his cars around and stuff and adults get that
0:59.8	same look on their face like when they're doing the blackout poems.
1:04.0	It's probably like doing a crossword or something, you know,
1:06.2	but they get this in this zone of concentration.
1:09.5	And then when they're done making the poems,
1:12.2	they'll share them. That's the thing that really blows my mind
1:15.6	because like if you asked a bunch of adults to write you a poem, they would like freeze up and
1:21.8	no one would do anything and at the end there might be a
1:24.4	few like exhibitionists that would get up and read something that they'd
1:27.9	writ but most people would say silent but because you're taking other people
1:31.8	words and you're just playing and you're destroying and you know doing this kind of
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