313 - How to Make Creative Rules When You Don't Know What You Want with Austin Kleon
This was a super cathartic chat with creative powerhouse Austin Kleon.
In this chat we dive into some really big questions around influences, what happens when your creative heroes disappoint you and how to find what you want to do by using the shortcut of defining what you’re against.
If you don’t know Austin - he’s the author of several incredible books including Steal Like an Artist, Show Your Work and Keep Going. I think of Kleon as my older cooler creative cousin, who’s much more well read than I am! HA!
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SHOW NOTES
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Austin Kleon’s New Book Keep Going
https://austinkleon.com/keepgoing/
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PARENTS - I am doing a VIRTUAL DRAWING EVENT with Mightier - the company that makes video games to help kids discover emotional strength - it will be hands on - we will be talking about how I use drawing to calm myself down - and I will be teaching them how to draw some of my invisible things! It will be a ton of fun! We did this activity with a small group and it was A BLAST
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