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Steal Like An Artist - Coggle Diagram
Steal Like An Artist
School Yourself
Get yourself an education
Be curious about the world
Chase down every reference
Google everything
Don’t ask a question before you
Google it
Always be reading
Go to the library
Read
bibliographies
Collect books
Save Your Thefts for Later
Copy your favorite passages
Record overheard conversations
Jot down your thoughts
Doodle
Carry a notebook
Keep a scrapbook
Keep a swipe file.
Capture pictures
Climb Your Own Family Tree
“I don’t believe in art. I believe in
artists.”
Chew on one thinker you really love
Find out everything about them
Three people that thinker loved
Start your own branch
Part of a creative lineage
remote masters
Garbage In, Garbage Out
Hoarders collect indiscriminately
Artists collect
selectively
The artist is a collector
Things that they really love only
Collect good ideas
More Influence
How to Look at the World
The honest artist
What’s worth stealing
“Where do you get your ideas?”
Stuff that’s not worth stealing
Everything is up for grabs
Nothing is Original
We can stop trying to make something out of nothing,
Embrace influence instead of running away from it
Nothing comes from
nowhere
“There is nothing new under the
sun.”
nothing comes from
nowhere
Genetics
Features from both of them
Ancestors
Familial genealogy
Genealogy of ideas
You are the sum of your influences
The Genealogy of Ideas
Every new idea is just a mashup
Previous ideas
Parallel
lines on a piece of paper
1 + 1 = 3