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Austin Kleon on Writing, Creativity and The Importance of Idleness

Not Overthinking

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The Dopy Metaphors We Use for Creative Work

The metaphors we use have so much of hem. He just so important. There's a book called metapho s we live by. I mean, you start thinking, like, wat is a goal? Is a goal something that id did primitive humans think about gold? You know? Ut. Raaina etlis smit, goal specific measure biit. And i've got rellyinto quilting. Not that i actually quilt, but these, like their patchworks where i take little pieces of tape and magazines, and i make what look like quilts, but they're technically packed patchworks,. A as quilts have three layers.

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