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

Finished Not Perfect by Jake Parker
Audio: The Gap by Ira Glass; Video by Daniel Sax
31-day Practice and Suck Less Challenge by Austin Kleon
31-day Practice and Suck Less Challenge pdf

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

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

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

A podcast for freelancers
StartUp is a podcast series about what it’s really like to get a business off the ground.
  • 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

by Steven Pressfield
by Steven Pressfield

Do The Work is pretty much a distillation of the principles in The War of Art.

by Kirby Ferguson
by Austin Kleon
Keep Going Cheat Sheet
by Austin Kleon
Steal Like An Artist Cheat Sheet
The Practice: Shipping Creative Work by Seth Godin
The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery by Sarah Lewis

Design

by Ellen Lupton
by Ellen Lupton

UX

by Donald Norman

Exhibition & Promotion

Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered by Austin Kleon

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