Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad

Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad

By
Austin Kleon
Austin Kleon
2019 • 225 pages

Ratings67

Average rating4.3

15

List

226 books

Interests

daanz
Daan Zeeuwe
Electronics - Circuits and Systems
Woodworking Basics
Modernist Cuisine at Home
Flour Water Salt Yeast
Men's Style: The Thinking Man's Guide to Dress
Sew Step by Step: More Than 200 Essential Techniques for Beginners

List

212 books

2019

morrow
Mike
A Beginner's Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations
There Are Doors
The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Cold Warriors
Children of God

List

6 books

Essential Reads for Artists

hollymarshmallow
HollySupporter
Steal Like an Artist
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad
The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

List

109 books

2019

thehourofpearl
Jess
Red, White & Royal Blue
A Better Man
Modern Love
Failing Up
Lovability
Be Prepared
Cilla Lee-Jenkins

List

21 books

Rh Top 2020

jero
Jero
Lives, Volume IV: Alcibiades and Coriolanus. Lysander and Sulla
Plutarch's Lives: Volume II
Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad
The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life
The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
My Side of the Mountain Trilogy
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

List

29 books

Creativity

jerm
Jer
Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation
Creativity: The Psychology of Discovery and Invention
The Medici Effect
Steal Like an Artist
Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
Superminds: The Surprising Power of People and Computers Thinking Together

List

17 books

Writing

jerm
Jer
Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content
Steal Like an Artist
Newspaper Blackout
Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
The Art of Storytelling
Several Short Sentences about Writing

List

8 books

Art

jerm
Jer
Steal Like an Artist
Newspaper Blackout
Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
On Web Typography
The Practice: Shipping Creative Work
True War Stories: Tales of Deployment from Vietnam to Today

List

9 books

2024 TBR

mattwiley
Matt Wiley
A Brief History of Black Holes: And why nearly everything you know about them is wrong
Space at the Speed of Light
Steal Like an Artist
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad
Piranesi
The Electric State

List

2,410 books

Books I Own Hard Copy

erindarlyn
Erin Darlyn
The End of Mental Illness
Grit: Passion, Perseverance, and the Science of Success
Blueprint: How DNA makes us who we are
Quiet : The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
Healing the Broken Brain: Leading Experts Answer 100 Questions about Stroke Recovery

List

159 books

Creativity

erindarlyn
Erin Darlyn
Complete Crochet Course: The Ultimate Reference Guide
Martha Stewart's Encyclopedia of Crafts
New Ceramic Surface Design: Learn to Inlay, Stamp, Stencil, Draw, and Paint on Clay
Making Pottery You Can Use: Plates that stack • Lids that fit • Spouts that pour • Handles that stay on
Pinch Pottery: Functional, Modern Handbuilding
Martha Stewart's Encyclopedia of Sewing and Fabric Crafts: Basic Techniques for Sewing, Applique, Embroidery, Quilting, Dyeing, and Printing, plus 150 Inspired Projects from A to Z

List

81 books

Business

erindarlyn
Erin Darlyn
This Is Marketing
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
Women with Money: Create the Joyful, Less Stressed, Purposeful Life You Want with the Money You Have
The Storyteller's Secret: From TED Speakers to Business Legends, Why Some Ideas Catch On and Others Don't
The 10x Rule
Free to Focus

List

100 books

2019

StickyNoteBookRecs
Melissa
The one-in-a-million boy
The Wright Brothers
Long Way Down: The Graphic Novel
The Cookie Fiasco (Elephant & Piggie Like Reading!, #1)
Writing magic

List

189 books

Sn Br

StickyNoteBookRecs
Melissa
On the Road
House Arrest
Anne of Green Gables
A royal pain
Nathan Coulter
A World Lost
Remembering

List

28 books

2019

dsk
Dave
No One Belongs Here More Than You
The Examined Life
This Year You Write Your Novel
To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret
A Wild Sheep Chase
Killing Commendatore
You Need a Budget

List

54 books

Self Development

Kataboy
Igor
The Sketchnote Workbook
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos / Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence
Together is Better
The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
Find Your Why: A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team
The Bullet Journal Method: Track the Past, Order the Present, Design the Future

List

43 books

Owned

true
Tori
Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Latte Factor
Feel Good Productivity
The Picture of Dorian Grey
The Death of Expertise

List

461 books

Kindle

DistractedReader
Holly
The Entire and the Rose: Bright of the sky
The Host
Never Let Me Go
Still Life
The Paradise War
The House on Durrow Street

List

198 books

Borrowed

DistractedReader
Holly
Side Jobs: Stories from The Dresden Files
Boneshaker
Child of Fire
Ready Player One
The Dream Thieves
Scarlet
Nerd Do Well

List

208 books

Own

CarleyKnightArt
Carley Knight
Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur
Die Empty
The Year of Living Biblically
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Think and Grow Rich
The Little Book of Talent: 52 Tips for Improving Your Skills
Take the Stairs

List

1,039 books

Nonfiction

DebNance
Deb Nance
Barefoot Books World Atlas Sticker Book
Carlos Santana: Sound of the Heart, Song of the World
Sinister Savannah
Deadly Spider Bite!
The Whaleship Essex: The True Story of Moby Dick
Skulls!
Half-Earth

List

114 books

Writing

DebNance
Deb Nance
S is for Story: A Writer's Alphabet
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Trial by Journal
This Is Not a Book
Write This Book: a do-it-yourself mystery
The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language

List

273 books

Creativity

DebNance
Deb Nance
Seven Days in the Art World
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
High Tide in Tucson
Journal of a Solitude
The cross-country quilters
The Glass Bead Game

List

18 books

Creativity

no
n
The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
Raw Dog
Unleashing the Ideavirus
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
Like Brothers

List

44 books

Design

angioletto
Annie
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited
The Art of Looking Sideways
How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer
Thinking with Type, 2nd revised and expanded edition
The Elements of Typographic Style
Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop
Paul Rand: A Designer's Art
Next