# Creativity Resources

## What it Means to Have a Creative Practice

> "Greatness is consistency.\
> &#x20; Meditating once is common. Meditating daily is rare.\
> &#x20; Exercising today is simple. Training every week is simply remarkable.\
> &#x20; Writing one essay rarely matters. Write every day and you're practically a hero.\
> &#x20; Unheroic days can make for heroic decades." \
> \~James Clear

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

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

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A podcast for freelancers
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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

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by Steven Pressfield
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by Steven Pressfield
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*Do The Work* is pretty much a distillation of the principles in *The War of Art*.&#x20;

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by Kirby Ferguson
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by Austin Kleon
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![Keep Going Cheat Sheet](https://miro.medium.com/max/2048/1*Sz1lQkqKnhcWjcmy4xaxNA.jpeg)

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by Austin Kleon
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![Steal Like An Artist Cheat Sheet](https://bbinno.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/steal2.png?w=736)

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The Practice: Shipping Creative Work by Seth Godin
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The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery by Sarah Lewis
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## Design

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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

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

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

***Royalty-Free sound***

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{% 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***

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

**Slides**

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## 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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