Keep Going by Austin Kleon: Summary and Notes

How to design a system to be creative every day and keep moving on to the next project (regardless of success or failure)

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“Creativity is about connections, and connections are not made by siloing everything off into its own space. New ideas are formed by interesting juxtapositions, and interesting juxtapositions happen when things are out of place.”

Rating: 8/10

Related: Steal Like an Artist, Show Your Work, The War of Art, Ignore Everybody, The Practice, The Creative Habit

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Keep Going Short Summary

The work of a creative person is never finished. Instead of having a finish line, it’s more like a loop, in which you keep coming back to a new starting point after every project. In Keep Going, Austin Kleon writes about designing a system to be creative every day and keep moving on to the next project, regardless of success or failure.

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