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Austin Kleon (born 1983) is a New York Times bestselling author of three books: Steal Like an Artist; Show Your Work!; and Newspaper Blackout.

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Travel makes the world look new, and when the world looks new, our brains work harder.

Brain, Brains, Hard Work, Harder, Looks, World

You’re only going to be as good as the stuff you surround yourself with.

Good, Letting Go, Moved On, Stuff, Surround

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.

Running, Trying, Influence, Completely, Free

Marriage is two people in love standing in the same bathroom

Two, People, Bathroom, Standing, Marriage

Become a documentarian of what you do.

Become, Documentarian

Find the most talented person in the room, and if it's not you, go stand next to him. Hang out with him. Try to be helpful. If you ever find that you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.

Hang, Needs, Person, Rooms, Talented, Trying

Pretend to be making something until you actually make something.

Actually, Make, Making, Pretend

Do good work and share it with people.

Good, Good Work, People, Share, Work

Keep all your passions in your life.

Keep, Life, Passion, Passions

Nothing is more paralyzing than the idea of limitless possibilities.

Ideas, Limitless, Limitless Possibilities, Nothing, Paralyzing, Possibilities

In order to be found, you have to be findable.

Findable, Found, Found You, Order

Eat breakfast. Do some push-ups. Go for long walks. Get plenty of sleep.

Breakfast, Long, Long Walks, Sleep, Walks

The biggest task in the morning is to try to keep my headspace from being invaded by the outside world.

Biggest, Morning, Task, Tasks, Trying

Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of one or more previous ideas.

Idea, Ideas, Mashup, Mashups, Remix

If I'd waited to know who I was or what I was about before I started "being creative," well, I'd still be sitting around trying to figure myself out instead of making things. In my experience, it's in the act of making things and doing our work that we figure out who we are.

Creative, Inspirational, Know, Sitting, Trying, Work

Obituaries are like near-death experiences for cowards.

Coward, Cowards, Like, Near Death, Near Death Experience, Obituaries

In the end, creativity isn’t just the things we choose to put in, it’s the things we choose to leave out.

Choose, Creativity, Ends, Leave, Things

If you ever find you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.

Inspirational, Needs, Person, Room, Rooms, Talented

The best advice is not to write what you know, it's to write what you like.

Advice, Best Advice, Know, Like, Write, Writing

Genealogy of ideas. You don’t get to pick your family, but you can pick your teachers and you can pick your friends and you can pick the music you listen to and you can pick the books you read and you can pick the movies you see.

Book, Family, Ideas, Listen, Music, Teacher

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