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In Order to Keep Going, You Must Start
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Thanks to Austin Kleon sharing a Stephen Harrigan quote to inspire this pod.
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Austin Kleon's Creative Wisdom
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More than anything else these days, we need to heed the advice from Austin Kleon who said on this podcast, quote, maybe the world will always be crazy and creative work will always be hard. Then the question becomes, how do you keep going? End quote.
The Daunting Start of Creativity
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As hard as it is to keep going, sometimes it's equally hard to start. It's daunting. How can you write all those words? It's overwhelming, so you don't even start.
Write Before You're Ready
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And so it was great when Kleon shared a quote from the author Stephen Harrigan that makes starting that much easier. Harrigan says, quote, I think that when it comes to writing books, you have to start before you think you're ready, because you will always feel like you are never ready. I find that as you write the book, the road ahead becomes clearer. Before that, the road ahead is just a distraction, end quote.
Creativity and Newton's Laws
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Isaac Newton's laws of motion say that bodies in motion want to stay in motion and that items not in motion want to stay put. Of course I'm butchering that, but it's all about inertia, right? Artistic projects are kind of the same. Once they're in motion, they want to stay in motion. And then, as Kleon said, you keep going.
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