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STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST

Austin Kleon

Austin Kleon on TEDx http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oww7oB9rjgw

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1. Steal Like an artist

2. Don’t Wait until you know who you are to get started

3. Write the book you want to read

4. Use your hands

5. Side projects and hobbies are important

6. The Secret: Do god work and share it with others

7. Geography is no longer our master

8. Be Nice(the worlds is a small town)

9. Be boring(it’s the only way to get work done)

10. Creativity is subtraction

STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST

Agenda

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PABLO PICASSO

“Art is theft”

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Introduction

The artist is a collector. Not a hoarder, mind you, there is a difference!

Artist only collect things that they really love

You could say:”Garbage in, garbage out”

School yourself: Google everything – Google your dreams, Google your problems, Don’t ask a question before you Googled it – You will either find the answer, or you will come up with a better answer

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"Recycling is great to fuel your imaginations. Creativity often die in anxiety and fear of failure.When working only with expensive materials, you will be afraid to make mistakes. You want be afraid if you use garbage “ Shane Brox

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Introduction

Every new idea is just a mashup or remix of one or more previous ideas

André Gide said: “Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening everything must be said again”

Spend 2 minutes discussing with your neighbor about ideas you got, and from where they came.

Note them on a piece of paper.

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“What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun” Ecclesiastes 1:9

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Don’t wait until you know who you are to get started

It’s the act of making thing and doing our work, that we figure out who we are..

If you are afraid: Fake it til you make it!

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Don’t wait until you know who you are to get started

1. Pretend to be something you are not, until you are

2. Pretend to be making something until you actually make something

“Start copying what you love, Copy, copy, copy. At the end of the copy you will find yourself” Yohji Yamamoto

Spend 2 minutes discussing with your neighbor about a situation where you weren't really sure about what you were doing but still did it!

Note them on a piece of paper

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“All – the worlds a stage,…” William Shakespeare in : As you like it

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Write the book you want to read

Continuing a story as a fan, is called fan fiction.

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Spend 2 minutes talking to your neighbor about a story that you made up inspired by a film or a good book you read -

Note them on a piece of paper

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Use your hands

In the digital age – don’t forget your digits.

The word digital comes from the same source as the words digit and digitus (the Latin word for finger), as fingers are used for discrete counting.

Work that only comes from the head isn’t. any good…

You need a way to bring your body into your work..

Spend 2 minutes discussing with your neighbor what you do when you need to get inspired..

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We don’t know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them from our laptops” John Cleese

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Side projects and hobbies are important

Practice Productive Procrastination –

-In psychology, procrastination refers to the act of replacing high-priority actions with tasks of lower priority, or doing something from which one derives enjoyment, and thus putting off important tasks to a later time…

- Some people draw- Some people go and have a smoke- Some people play the guitar in between- Some people look at facebook

Spend 2 minutes discussing with your neighbor what you can do to procrastinate in a productive way..

Note them on a piece of paper

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“The Work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life” Jessica Hishe

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The Secret: Do good work and share it with people

1. Do good work

It’s incredible hard work, Make stuff every day. Know you are going to suck for a while.

FAIL – Sometimes!

Get better…

2. Share it with people..

Spend 2 minutes discussing with your neighbor about the most successful share you ever made

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Ten years ago – sharing your stuff was really hard, Now its easy ..Whats the best platform for sharing your work?

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Geography is no longer our master

Your Brain gets to comfortable in your everyday surroundings.

You need to make it uncomfortable, you need to spend some time in another land, among other people that do things differently than you do.

Travel makes the World look new, and when the World looks new, our brain works harder.

Spend 2 minutes discussing with your neighbor something you learned by going to another country..

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“ Distance and difference are the secret tonic of Creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything.” Johan Lehrer

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Be Nice(the world is a small town)

Make friends, ignore enemies…

If you talk about someone on the internet they will find out..

Everybody has a Google alert on their name.

You are only going to be as good as the people you surround yourself with. In the digital space this means following the best people online –People who are better and smarter than you.

Spend 2 minutes discussing with your neighbor who you follow, and how you follow them…

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“ I destroy my enemies, when I make them my Friends” Abraham Lincoln

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Be boring(it’s the only way to get things done)

It takes a lot of energy to be creative – You don’t have that energy if you “waste it” on other stuff..

Creating the content of a successful project is much about “writing a page a day” It doesn't’t seem like much, but in 365 days you have enough to fill a novel..

Get your self a calendar – a calendar helps you plan your work, gives you concrete goals and keeps you on track.

Spend 2 minutes discussing with your neighbor How you like to keep track of you time, and if you are good at it..

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“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work” – Gustave Flaubert

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Creativity is subtraction

Nothing is more paralyzing than the idea of limitless possibilities

The way to get over a creative block is simply to place some constraint on yourself..

Limitations means freedom (You know what to, and what not to think about)

Choose wisely and have fun!

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“In this age of information abundance and overload, those who get ahead will be the folks that figure out what to leave out” – Austin Kleon