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Become a documentarian of what you do.

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Austin Kleon
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: June 16
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Visual Artist
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Ohio
United States
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It's in the act of making things that we figure out who we are.
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You're ready. Start making stuff.
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The people who get what they’re after are very often the ones who just stick around long enough.
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Travel makes the world look new, and when the world looks new, our brains work harder.
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There’s an economic theory out there that if you take the incomes of your five closest friends and average them, the resulting number will be pretty close to your own income. I think the same thing is true of idea incomes. You’re only going to be as good as the stuff you surround yourself with.
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You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life.
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Your brain gets too comfortable in your everyday surroundings. You need to make it uncomfortable. You need to spend some time in another land, among people that do things differently than you. Travel makes the world look new, and when the world looks new, our brains work harder.
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Copying is about reverse-engineering.
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Marriage is two people in love standing in the same bathroom
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The minute you learn something, turn around and teach it to others.
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If you’re worried about giving your secrets away, you can share your dots without connecting them.
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You'll either find the answer or you'll come up with a better question.
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Don't worry about doing research. Just search.
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Nothing is more paralyzing than the idea of limitless possibilities.
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When people give advice, they're really just talking to themselves in the past.
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The more good ideas you collect, the more you can choose from to be influenced by.
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Eat breakfast. Do some push-ups. Go for long walks. Get plenty of sleep.
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Not everybody will get it. People will misinterpret you and what you do. They might even call you names. So get comfortable with being misunderstood, disparaged, or ignored -- the trick is to be too busy doing your work to care.
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Usually, when we talk about creativity, it's about self-expression, which is great, but for work to be art or design, there has to be someone on the other end. The audience makes the work come alive.
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If we're free from the burden of trying to be completely original, we can stop trying to make something out of nothing, and we can embrace influence instead of running from it.
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