Keep Working. Keep Playing. Keep Creating.
In his previous books Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work!, both New York Times bestsellers, Austin Kleon gave readers the keys to unlock their creativity and showed them how to become known. Now he offers his most inspiring work yet, with ten simple rules for how to stay creative, focused, and true to yourself—for life.
The creative life is not a linear journey to a finish line, it’s a loop—so find a daily routine, because today is the only day that matters. Disconnect from the world to connect with yourself—sometimes you just have to switch into airplane mode. Keep Going celebrates getting outdoors and taking a walk (as director Ingmar Bergman told his daughter, ”The demons hate fresh air”). Pay attention, and especially pay attention to what you pay attention to. Worry less about getting things done, and more about the worth of what you’re doing. Instead of focusing on making your mark, work to leave things better than you found them.
Keep Going and its timeless, practical, and ethical principles are for anyone trying to sustain a meaningful and productive life.
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.
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
