7 lessons entrepreneurs can steal from Austin Kleon

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7 lessons entrepreneurs can steal from Austin Kleon (@austinkleon) 👇

Austin Kleon wrote • Steal Like An Artist • Show Your Work • Keep Going His books have sold over 1mm copies. The Atlantic called him “one of the most interesting people on the Internet.” I reread all 3 books over the weekend. Here are 7 bite-sized lessons:

/Have a routine You can control: • What you work on • How hard you work on it A routine allows you to focus on the boring work that gets results.

/Sisyphus, not Odysseus Business, like art, is an infinite game. • You never win • There is no final boss The best learn to love playing & simply outlast everyone else.

/Copy to reverse engineer success When starting, copy your heroes. • Bezos copied Walton • Buffett copied Graham • Gates copied Kildall Your unique style will appear over time.

/Build something that you want to exist • Writers should make the book they want to read • Musicians should make the album they want to listen to “Complain about the way other people make software by making software.” -@torrez

/Show how the sausage gets made You can form a unique connection with your audience by sharing your day-to-day process. Sharing costs little & comes with infinite upside The asymmetric upside is why “build in public” is popular.

/Publish every day 90% of what we make is crap. “We don’t always know what’s good & what sucks.” Constant feedback helps you ship better work.

/Be consistent Most people quit too early. Want to hit your goals? Show up every day for a long time.

TLDR • Have a routine • Sisyphus, not Odysseus • Copy to reverse engineer success • Build something that you want to exist • Show how the sausage gets made • Publish every day • Be consistent

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