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The $100 MBA Show

MBA1118 Must Read: Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon

The $100 MBA Show

Omar Zenhom

Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2018

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

What’s the secret to creativity? How do great product designers, artists, and content marketers create original work that’s unlike anything consumers have seen before? They don’t.

Transcript

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0:15.3

Heyo! Welcome to the 100 Army Show, The business podcast that knows at times your biggest asset. That's why we don't waste it.

0:16.7

With our daily 10 minute business lessons for the real world, I'm your host, your

0:20.7

coach, your teacher, Omar Zenholm. I'm also the co-founder of the $100 MBA, a complete

0:26.4

business training and community online. And today's episode is a must-read episode.

0:30.9

On our must-read episodes, I share with you a book that I've read that has

0:34.4

influenced me as an entrepreneur I share with you its takeaways and why you should read it to.

0:39.2

Today's must read is, Steele like an Artist by Austin Cleon.

0:43.6

I heard about this book several times before I actually picked it up and read it.

0:47.8

And recently I heard it referenced in another book that I was reading, so I was like,

0:50.8

uh, I got to read this book already.

0:52.8

In this book, Steele like an artist, the author Austin Cleon, goes into detail on how art is actually

0:58.2

made.

0:59.2

And when he says art, he means any kind of creative pursuit. That includes creating a product and building a business

1:05.1

around it.

1:06.1

Most of us think that all the best ideas are original ideas, and our ideas have to be original

1:11.0

or they're just not going to be successful.

1:13.0

Well Austin Cleon debunks all of that and says no there are no original ideas.

1:17.2

In fact all the best artists and creators steal from each other.

1:21.7

Now in today's episode I'm going to explain what he means by Steele and how to do this without getting into legal trouble and how you should approach your creation process whether you're writing a blog post or creating a slide deck for your webinar, or creating a product or business.

1:37.0

This book really made me feel good after reading it.

1:41.0

I'll explain why along with all my takeaways, so let's get into it,

1:45.0

let's get down to business.

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