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The world is crazy. Creative work is hard. And nothing is getting any easier! In his previous books--Steal Like an Artistand Show Your Work!, New York Times bestsellers with over a million copies in print combined--Austin Kleon gave readers the key to unlock their creativity and then showed them how to share it. Now he completes his trilogy with his most inspiring work yet. Keep Going gives the reader life-changing, illustrated advice and encouragement on how to stay creative, focused, and true to yourself in the face of personal burnout or external distractions. Here is how to Build a Bliss Station--a place or fixed period where you can disconnect from the world. How to see that Every Day Is Groundhog Day--yesterday's over, tomorrow may never come, so just do what you can do today. How to Forget the Noun, Do the Verb--stop worrying about being a "painter" and just paint. Keep working. Keep playing. Keep searching. Keep giving. Keep living. Keep Going. It's exactly the message all of us need, at exactly the right time.
About the author
Austin Kleon is the New York Times bestselling author of a trilogy of illustrated books about creativity in the digital age: Steal Like An Artist, Show Your Work!, and Keep Going. He’s also the author of Newspaper Blackout, a collection of poems made by redacting the newspaper with a permanent marker. His books have been translated into dozens of languages and have sold over a million copies worldwide. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and sons. Visit him online at www.austinkleon.com.
Summary
Keep Going shows you how to stay true to and focused on your own creative vision when the world seems out of control.In ten heavily illustrated, inspiring chapters, bestselling author Austin Kleon offers advice, stories, and anecdotes that teach you how to persist in doing work that helps make a world worth living in.
Foreword
Keep Going shows you how to stay true to and focused on your own creative vision when the world seems out of control.
In ten heavily illustrated, inspiring chapters, bestselling author Austin Kleon offers advice, stories, and anecdotes that teach you how to persist in doing work that helps make a world worth living in.
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Praise for Keep Going:
“Anyone living any sort of creative life needs this pep talk on their bookshelf.”—BookPage
Praise for Austin Kleon:
“Brilliant.” —New York Magazine
“Positively one of the most interesting people on the Internet.” —The Atlantic
