See something worth stealing? Put it in the swipe file. Copy your favorite passages out of books. Get used to pulling it out and jotting down your thoughts and observations. Save Your Thefts For Later > “ It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.”- Mark Twain - Carry a notebook and pen with you wherever you go. Go deeper than anybody else- That’s how you’ll get ahead. You have to be curious about the world in which you live. School Yourself > “whether I went to school or not, I would always study” -RZA - Whether you’re in school or not, it’s always your job to get yourself an education. Repeat this as many times as you can and build your tree. Then find three people that the thinker loved, and find out everything about them. study everything there is to know about that person. instead, chew on one thinker - writer, artist, role model - you really love. they only collect things that they really love.Ĭlimb Your Own Family Tree - There is a good method for studying art - if you try to devour the history of your discipline all at once, you will choke. Artist is a collector, not a hoarder, mind you, the difference: Hoards collect indiscriminately, and artist collect selectively. the more good ideas you collect, the more you can choose from to be influenced by. Garbage In, Garbage Out - You’re only going to be as good as the stuff you surround yourself with. The Genealogy of Ideas - Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of one or more previous works. Creative work builds on what came before. Nothing Is Original > “What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.”- William Ralph Inge - The good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. How to Look At The World(Like an Artist) - Every artist gets asked the question, >“Where do you get your ideas?” - The honest artist answers, > “I steal them.” Creative people don’t think they are making things from nowhere, they understand that every new idea is just a remix of someone’s work.If you think about what you were or how you started being creative, You still will be sitting around figuring yourself out instead of making things.

If you are stuck and want to work on a creative project or you don’t know how to start your journey of creating work, this book is for you.

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