The trouble with creative work: Sometimes by the time peopl… - Austin Kleon

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The trouble with creative work: Sometimes by the time people catch on to what’s valuable about what you do, you’re either a) bored to death with it, or b) dead. You can’t go looking for validation from external sources. Once you put your work into the world, you have no control over the way people will react to it.

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Austin Kleon (born June 16, 1983) is the New York Times bestselling author of Steal Like an Artist, Show Your Work!, and Keep Going.

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You can’t go looking for validation from external sources. Once you put your work into the world, you have no control over the way people will react to it.

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Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.

That’s what you really want — to internalize their way of looking at the world. If you just mimic the surface of somebody’s work without understanding where they are coming from, your work will never be anything more than a knockoff.

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