Stay Creative, Focused, and True to Yourself with Austin Kleon
The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show
Chase Jarvis
4.8 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2019
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
He is one of the most insightful voices on one of my favorite topics: building and maintaining a creativity habit. Today on the show please welcome my long-time friend and creative inspirator - Austin Kleon.
If you’re not familiar with this work, Austin is a lifelong artist and the bestselling author of three earlier books (Newspaper Blackout, Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work)…but today we’re all about his new book titled Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad.
And BONUS - this episode is an extra special treat because Austin came out to Seattle and we chatted in front of a live audience! Some great questions, a few good laughs, and it all takes place in a huge church! Want to avoid burn-out and stay creative in good times and bad? This’ll be a great listen.
We also cover…
- Maintaining creative momentum
- Austin’s personal daily practice
- Kids and creativity
- Getting unstuck
- The value of time as a great editor for your work
- And…the value of 'going away so you can come back.’
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| 0:00.0 | I actually really love being in this church right now because it's not Instagram friendly, right? |
| 0:07.3 | Like, it's not, it's a church. It's like, it reminds me of, I mean, it's church. |
| 0:14.5 | It's church. |
| 0:16.3 | That's right. We open this episode from the middle of a church with my good friend, Austin Klan. |
| 0:23.3 | Hey y'all. Welcome to another episode of the show. As I mentioned, my friend Austin Klan is the guest today. |
| 0:28.8 | You're going to love the show. And if you forgot for half a second, this is this show, the Chase Jervis Life show here on Creative Live, where I sit down with amazing humans and I do what I can to unpack their brain to help you live your goals and career hobby in life. |
| 0:41.6 | That's what I'm doing with my man, Austin Cleon. |
| 0:44.3 | If for some crazy reason you're not familiar with Austin's work, he is the bestselling author of four books, I think. |
| 0:51.5 | Three of them illustrated. |
| 0:53.4 | Oh, wait. |
| 0:53.9 | No, all four of them illustrated because he identifies himself as a writer who draws. |
| 0:59.5 | He does all his own illustrations. |
| 1:01.3 | I can't wait for you to check out this book if you're not familiar with him. |
| 1:04.1 | His first book, which turned me on to his work, was called newspaper blackout. |
| 1:07.7 | You've probably seen those where someone clips out a newspaper article and then they black |
| 1:11.9 | out all the words and leave a few of them exposed to make beautiful poetry. He was very early in that |
| 1:17.0 | and his first book shared that. And then he's done three books in a row. We talk about his |
| 1:22.7 | fourth book today, which is called Keep Going. Book number one that you would know is called |
| 1:27.9 | Steal Like an Artist. It's a very radical where he talks about how, well, stealing like an artist. |
| 1:35.5 | I'll just leave it at that. Second one, show your work about how he reveals his process and |
| 1:39.7 | how valuable that is in building a fan base and also in helping you figure out your own creativity. |
| 1:48.1 | But today and in this beautiful church, we're recording, it was a collaboration between |
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