Austin Kleon is a writer, artist, and speaker. Austin also speaks about creativity for organizations such as Pixar, Google, SXSW, and many others. He is the author of many books, including Steal Like an Artist, and Newspaper Blackout.

In this episode, Eric and Austin discuss his book, Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad

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In This Interview, Austin Kleon and I Discuss How to Stay Creative and …

• His book, Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad
• How his deep work has usually originated from a dark place
• Life is about the balance between the light and dark in us
• His long term pessimism and short term optimism
• Making peace with things not ever getting easier and learning to enjoy the now.
• How there are no perfect conditions in life so no sense waiting or worrying about what’s next
• If/And statements and how life is not linear in that way
• His reflection on the book her wrote 10 years ago
• Trying to get back to the beginner’s mind
• Seeking curiosity over wisdom
• Ordinary life + extra attention = the extraordinary
• Paying attention by drawing, writing, reading poetry, or walking
• Trying to view things as an artist might
• Forget the noun, do the verb
• The importance of having a hobbies
• How energy can be found in books and works of art

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