# Creativity Resources

## What it Means to Have a Creative Practice

> "Greatness is consistency.\
>   Meditating once is common. Meditating daily is rare.\
>   Exercising today is simple. Training every week is simply remarkable.\
>   Writing one essay rarely matters. Write every day and you're practically a hero.\
>   Unheroic days can make for heroic decades." \
> \~James Clear

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Finished Not Perfect by Jake Parker
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{% embed url="<https://vimeo.com/danielsax/thegap>" %}
Audio: The Gap by Ira Glass; Video by Daniel Sax
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{% embed url="<https://austinkleon.com/2021/03/01/31-day-practice-and-suck-less-challenge/>" %}
31-day Practice and Suck Less Challenge by Austin Kleon
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{% embed url="<https://www.dropbox.com/s/yle30d0ykag362d/practice-suck-less-31-days.pdf>?" %}
31-day Practice and Suck Less Challenge pdf
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## Recommended Audio Podcasts

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Maurice Cherry interviews designers, developers, and other creators of color weekly.

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Tim Ferriss deconstructs world-class performers from eclectic areas (investing, sports, business, art, etc.) to extract the tactics, tools, and routines you can use. This includes favorite books, morning routines, exercise habits, time-management tricks, and much more.

I suggest listening to Derek Sivers, Debbie Millman, and David Heinemeier Hansson

{% embed url="<https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-unmistakable-creative-podcast/id352721366?mt=2>" %}

Srini Rao interviews instigators, rebels, and people with a pathological inability to accept the status quo.

{% embed url="<https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510313/how-i-built-this>" %}

{% embed url="<https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/state-of-the-art/id1305467447?mt=2>" %}

{% embed url="<https://creativeclass.co/podcast/>" %}
A podcast for freelancers
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{% embed url="<https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/startup-podcast/id913805339?mt=2>" %}
StartUp is a podcast series about what it’s really like to get a business off the ground.
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* In Season 1, Alex Blumberg told the story of launching this business, Gimlet Media, a podcast network.
* In Season 2, Lisa Chow joined Alex to follow an entirely new company: a company called Dating Ring, founded by two women in their 20s, outsiders in the male-dominated world of Silicon Valley.
* In Season 3, rather than following one company over many episodes, they are telling stories about many companies that all have something in common: their companies are stuck, and they know they need to make a big change.

## Creativity

{% embed url="<https://www.amazon.com/The-War-of-Art-Steven-Pressfield-audiobook/dp/B07PTBYH2G>" %}
by Steven Pressfield
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{% embed url="<https://www.amazon.com/Do-Work-Steven-Pressfield-ebook/dp/B00NK0MJBK/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=do+the+work&qid=1611015005&sr=8-1>" %}
by Steven Pressfield
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*Do The Work* is pretty much a distillation of the principles in *The War of Art*.&#x20;

{% embed url="<https://www.everythingisaremix.info/watch-the-series>" %}
by Kirby Ferguson
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{% embed url="<https://www.amazon.com/Keep-Going-Ways-Creative-Times/dp/1523506644/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=austin+kleon&qid=1578346637&sr=8-1>" %}
by Austin Kleon
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![Keep Going Cheat Sheet](https://miro.medium.com/max/2048/1*Sz1lQkqKnhcWjcmy4xaxNA.jpeg)

{% embed url="<https://www.amazon.com/Steal-Like-Artist-Things-Creative/dp/0761169253/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422468736&sr=8-1&keywords=steal+like+an+artist>" %}
by Austin Kleon
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![Steal Like An Artist Cheat Sheet](https://bbinno.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/steal2.png?w=736)

{% embed url="<https://www.amazon.com/Practice-Shipping-Creative-Work-ebook/dp/B088QLT891/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+practice&qid=1611014987&sr=8-1>" %}
The Practice: Shipping Creative Work by Seth Godin
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{% embed url="<https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Creativity-Failure-Search-Mastery/dp/1451629249/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=sarah+lewis&qid=1578348223&sr=8-1>" %}
The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery by Sarah Lewis
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## Design

{% embed url="<https://www.amazon.com/Graphic-Design-Basics-Revised-Expanded/dp/161689332X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1516898876&sr=8-1>" %}
by Ellen Lupton
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{% embed url="<http://thinkingwithtype.com/>" %}
by Ellen Lupton
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## UX

{% embed url="<https://www.amazon.com/Design-of-Everyday-Things-audiobook/dp/B07L5Y9HND>" %}
by Donald Norman
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## Exhibition & Promotion

{% embed url="<https://www.amazon.com/Show-Your-Work-Creativity-Discovered/dp/076117897X/>" %}
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered  by Austin Kleon
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## Fair Use Assets

{% embed url="<http://creativecommons.org>" %}

{% embed url="<https://www.pond5.com>" %}

***Royalty-Free sound***

{% embed url="<http://freesound.org>" %}

{% embed url="<http://freemusicarchive.org>" %}

{% embed url="<http://ccmixter.org>" %}

{% embed url="<http://soundbible.com>" %}

{% embed url="<http://www.audioblocks.com>" %}

{% embed url="<http://incompetech.com>" %}

***Creative Commons Video***

{% embed url="<http://archive.org>" %}

***Icons***

{% embed url="<https://thenounproject.com>" %}

{% embed url="<https://www.flaticon.com>" %}

***Graphics***

{% embed url="<https://undraw.co>" %}

{% embed url="<https://www.freepik.com>" %}

**Slides**

{% embed url="<https://slidesgo.com>" %}

## Inspiration

* [The Marginalian](https://www.themarginalian.org/) (formerly Brain Pickings)
* [Creative Applications](http://www.creativeapplications.net/)
* [Creators Project](https://creators.vice.com/en_us)
* [Eyeo Talks](https://vimeo.com/eyeofestival)
* [Kickstarter](https://www.kickstarter.com/)
* [Rhizome](http://rhizome.org/)
* [TED Talks](https://www.ted.com/)

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