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Austin kleon ted talk6/4/2023 It requires a real leap of imagination because you have to think about what happens when people start paying attention. Obscurity can be a real gift if you use it correctly. Freedom is not necessarily the best thing ever for art there’s a tension between freedom and constraint out of which great art arises. Now, unlimited freedom can be very paralyzing, too. I mean, people worry so much about people being angry at them or doing the wrong thing, but obscurity can be this great gift. I’d love to hear you talk a little bit about that, because I think the majority of us in the writing world are living in some version of it.Īustin Kleon: Well, you can just do whatever you want. But you make a great case for embracing obscurity and making productive use of it. Which most of us, even those of us who are published, might feel like we’re living in. So you just have to be really careful.īrad Listi: There’s a great part of Steal Like an Artist where you’re talking about obscurity. If you get the wrong words, it encourages the wrong kind of action. In my case, you end up a self-help writer, which I never anticipated. Whatever it is, if you just like to write and put stories together, that keeps things open in a way that a certain particular noun doesn’t.
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