BOOK SUMMARY: STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST
Steal like an artist is a book written by Austin Kleon. This book is more useful for artists and for the people who want to develop creativity. The book starts with autobiography of author. Here he tells that people give advice what they talked about in their past. He tried to make art. Later he realised that art is not only for artists but it is for everyone. His ideas are useful for those people who have any type of creativity in their life or in their work.
The book is divided in ten chapters. In the chapter of steal like an artist we should first look what is worth stealing, then we proceed. In the world nothing is original.
There is nothing new under the sun. -Bible
Some people feel depressed to find nothing new but for the artist it gives a hope. It is suggested to be artist rather only love art. If we try to go into history of all discipline all at once then we will stuck. So, we should think to be one at a time whether we are artist, writer, activist or role model. We should study everything about one of the thinkers and found out everything about them. We can learn from them each and everything. We should always take help of Google. Google all dreams, Google our problems, Google everything but don’t ask a question before you Google it.
We should copy our heroes. The people we love, the people we inspired by. The people we want to be. The benefit of copying our heroes is to get a glimpse of their minds. This is what we want to be, to internalise their way of looking at the world. If we do not understand their understanding and from where they are coming, we will never be anything more than a knock off.
We create art because we like art. We like some work because we are inspired by the people doing great work. The best advice for writers is to write the thing we know but they should right the things they like they should right the things they like to read. The same principle applies to our life and our career.
We need to find a way to use our body into some great work. We should have a book, a pen and a notepad. Our brain gets too comfortable in our everyday life. We make it uncomfortable. We need to spend some time in another land, with other people. Travelling makes the world look new and when the world looks new our brains work harder.
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