What’s the point of telling your ideas to those who don’t encourage your vision? And likewise, why bother living in a dreary house when you can cover your walls with things that make you come alive. We need to surround ourselves with the people and settings that make our dreams feel real. “You’re only as good as the stuff you surround yourself with.” Before making this claim, the author, Austin Kleon, mentions the economic theory that if you take the income of your five closest friends and average it, you’ll come get pretty close to how much money you make. The book is dense with notes and ideas and picking just 10 things to share was no simple task, but I hope you can find some inspiration in his words, just as I did.ġ. It is brief, but says a lot – like a wise friend who only speaks when they have something valuable to say. Yesterday, I decided to read it again, and though the book is packed with advice and information, it took me less than an hour to read the whole thing. I read it on an airplane in less than an hour and was so struck with motivation that I had to start writing things down on napkins in the absence of my faithful notebook (How very J.K. A few months ago I decided to pick up “ Steal Like An Artist” after hearing its name all over the place.
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