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“Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of one or more previous ideas.” - Austin Kleon
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“Creativity isn’t just the things we choose to put in, it’s the things we choose to leave out.” - Austin Kleon
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“It’s the act of making things and doing our work that we figure out who we are.” - Austin Kleon
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“Get comfortable with being misunderstood, disparaged, or ignored - the trick is to be too busy doing your work to care.” - Austin Kleon
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“Your job is to collect good ideas. The more good ideas you collect, the more you can choose from to be influenced by.” - Austin Kleon
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“You have to be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else - that’s how you’ll get ahead.” - Austin Kleon
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“There’s no pressure when you’re unknown. You can do what you want. Experiment. Do things just for the fun of it. When you’re unknown, there’s nothing to distract you from getting better.” - Austin Kleon
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”nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what can before. Nothing is completely original.”
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“Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you want to read, build the products you want to use - do the work you want to see done.” - Austin Kleon
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“Your job is to collect good ideas. The more good ideas you collect, the more you can choose from to be influenced by.” - Austin Kleon
It’s tempting to think that all the good ideas must be taken by now and that there is no possible way to make any new positive contribution.
However, the story of every good idea, every new project, every novel starts with: There was a bad idea. And then there was a better one.
“A successful or failed project is no guarantee of another success or failure. Whether you’ve just won big or lost big, you still have to face the question
“What’s next?”” - Austin Kleon
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