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Austin Kleon on Writing, Creativity and The Importance of Idleness

Not Overthinking

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I Think It's Interesting to Go Back to the Original Texts

I think it's interesting sometimes to go back to original texts, thi kind of start movements. I came to that book with such like, h this can't be good. It's actually wemorzen. Like these tips just help you get things done so then you can go do whatever you want afterward. You know, there's a realel like, sort of, i don't know,. There's almost like a, it's not buddhist, but it's, there's this kind of real zen to that book that i wasn't expecting. So many people have read steel, like an artist, and it's kind of like nirvana as a ban.

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