A user’s manual for embracing the communal nature of creativity, this inspiring manifesto is a blueprint for succeeding as any kind of artist or entrepreneur in the digital age. Show Your Work: How to take that critical next step on a creative journey―getting known and finding your people.

And forget the old cliché about writing what you know: Instead, write the book you want to read, make the movie you want to watch.

Remix and reimagine to discover your own path. School yourself through the work of others.

Including nothing is original, so embrace influence. Steal Like an Artist: The New York Times bestselling book on the ten things nobody ever told you about being creative. Read by the author, it’s the bestselling and transformative series on how to unlock your creativity, find community and an audience in the digital age, and stay focused, creative and true to yourself-for life. In my experience, it’s in the act of making things and doing our work that we figure out who we are.An audio compilation of Steal Like an Artist, Show Your Work and Keep Going. 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. Your invitation to 2269, the greatest party of all time, is on its way. As he writes, “Don’t wait until you know who you are to get started… You’re ready. His influence leads to people getting stuff done, with more joy and in a better world. In short, Austin’s distillation of a few concepts to live by – steal well, share, contribute – in concise, witty and fully cited works, cut through all that ancillary over-complication. We enjoy his weekly newsletter as well – check it out. You may have seen him at any number of TED style talks and he’s been asked to inspire PIXAR, Lucasfilm, Google and others. The first, Steal Like an Artist, was Amazon’s top selling book of 2012. All offer a playful and generous take on the act of creativity. His inspirational trilogy of books on being a creative, staying creative and enduring as a creative are New York Times Bestsellers. So, there is no necessity to indulge your demons to be creative, nor should we indulge artists who do. Although bad people can make great art, he reasons so can good people. The implication is, as Picasso said, “inspiration comes, but it has to find you working.” But Kleon also has Picasso in mind when he says that “art is for life, not the other way round.” He warns of what author Jenny Offill calls, the art monsters, those whose careers are littered with victims. Creativity is for everyone.” It’s not a talent, it’s a way of operating. Austin Kleon’s message is that “creativity is not magic.

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