My top3 key takeaways from the book KEEP GOING by Austin Kleon
- What next?
The truly prolific artists I know always have that question, answered, because they have figured out a daily practice- Leave things better than you found them
- To be on brand is to be 100 precent certain of who you are and what you do, and certainty, in art and in life, is not only completely overrated, it is also a roadblock to discovery
The followings are the list that didn’t make it to my top3.
- Tidying without worrying too much about the results can be a soothing form of play
- No matter how successful you get, no matter what level of achievement you reach , you will never really “arrive”
- Forget the NOUN, do the VERB
- One of the easiest ways to hate something you love is to turn it into your job: taking the thing that keeps you spiritually alive and turning it into the thing that keeps you alive literally
- When you start living from your work, resist the urge to monetize every single bit of your creative practice
- If you’re bummed out and hating your work, pick somebody special in your life and make something for them
- Your attention is one of the most valuable things you possess, which is why everyone wants to steal it from you
