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Steal Things like an Artist (book) by Austin Kleon 1 Steal like Artist -…

- - - - Every New Idea = Mash up / remix 1 & more previous ideas
    - - Garbage in, Garbage out
      - Choose what speaks to your soul
    - - Study ONE role model / Mentor
        
        Find 3 that the mentor follows
        
        Study those 3
        
        Repeat
    - - Google, Books, Search, Go DEEPER!
        
        Google -> Find Answer or Better Question!
    - - Carry notebook& pen
        
        Jot down
        
        Own Thoughts
        
        quotes by others
        
        overheard conversations
        
        doodles
        
        Own Observations
      - Swipe File
        
        To keep track of Stuff swipe from others
        
        Digital notes / Photos
        
        Scrapbook notes / pictures
        
        See something worth stealing?
        
        Store in Swipe File
        
        Need Inspiration?
        
        Refer back
- - - - Everyone has it
  - - - Copy = Reverse Engineering
        
        Practice, NOT plagiarism
      - 1) Who to Copy?
        
        Your Heros
        
        People who Inspire you
        
        People who you want to be
        
        Steal from ALL your Heroes
        
        Wilson Mizner:
        If you steal from one author it's plagiarism;
        if you steal from many it's research.
      - 2) What to Copy?
        
        Steal the THINKING Behind the Style
        
        Examine where you Fall short
        
        "What's in there that makes you different?"
        
        Amplify that Difference
        
        Transform that into YOUR OWN work
        
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      - Reason for copy Hero's Style:
        Glimpse into their minds
        
        Imitate,
        then Emulate
        
        Merely Imitate , NOT Flattery
        
        Transform their work into YOUR OWN work
        
        "Add something to the world that only you can add"
        
        Kobe Bryant: I have stolen all of these moves from all these great players. I just try to do them proud, the guys who came before, because I learnt so much from them.It's all in the name of the game.It's a lot bigger than me.
- - - - Business / Product
      - Art / Music / Books
      - Think about your Heroes
        
        What did they miss / didn't make?
        
        What could be made Better?
        
        If alive today, what would they make?
        
        If Collaboration, what could they make?
      - Brian Eno: My interest in making music has been to create something that does not exist that I would like to listen to. I wanted to hear music that had not yet happened, by putting together things that suggested a new thing which did not exist yet.
- - - - watch great musicians play / great leaders give speech
        
        their bodies move as they work
      - Find way to bring body into your work
        
        go through the motions
        
        Motion kickstart brain into thinking
    - - Have 2 workstations
        
        Workstation 1- analog
        
        for generating / playing with ideas
        
        All pens & paper / hands-on material
        
        use walls / floor
        
        cut up paper notes, rearrange
        
        look for patterns
        
        stand up working
        
        Use giant sticky notes
        
        workstation 2 - digital
        
        for editing / publishing
        
        Computer related equipment
        
        for storing / organising
      - Process
        
        Create at analog workspace
        
        Edit / refine on digital workspace
        
        go back to Analog workspace to rework
        
        Re-edit / re-refine on digital workspace
- - - - Do simple repetitive tasks, Let mind wander
      - Take time to mess around. Get lost. Wander. You never know where its going to lead you.
      - Artist Maria Kalman: Avoiding work is the way to focus my mind
    - - Bounce around with different projects
  - - - Steve Jobs: You can't connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards.
      - Don't worry about grand scheme or unified vision of your work. what unifies your work = you made it
        
        One day looking back, it will make sense
    - - If you Deny a REAL passion, you may suffer sense of loss (phantom limb pain)
        
        Without that passion, might suffer a feeling of loss
      - Differing passions may give new connections
    - - Creative
      - make you happy
      - Something that gives but doesn't take
      - No pressure,
        no big plans
      - regenerative
      - Not make $$
        Not be famous