On today's Monday episode of Reading Recap, I summarize the contents of Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon. This is a book meant for people looking to pursue a creative career and Kleon does an amazing job at providing high-quality advice in a nice and short format. If you're looking to find out how to get inspiration for your podcast, YouTube channel, blog, or newsletter then look no further as the book in this episode discusses just that! 

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Just start. Whatever you're trying to do. If you want to start a YouTube channel? Do it! Newsletter? Do it too! Podcast? You get it by now. We overcomplicate making things. We look at our work as a means for others to criticize it, rather than just making what we love. So please, if you want to start something, as Austin Kleon said, it's as easy as making what you love, and the people who love it as well will come to you. 

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Perfectionism is commonly seen as just a "quirky characteristic" that some just inherently have. In her book Daring Greatly, Brene Brown refers to perfectionism as a coping mechanism to avoid shame and judgment. 

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Ikigai is a book all about finding happiness through work, and deriving meaning from an activity. In the book, the authors talk about freeing yourself from your comfort zone (i.e, leaving it). The authors mention how it's essential for you to leave your comfort zone, as it allows for new neural connections and the revitalization of the brain. 

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 In this Daily Book Quote episode, I talk about doing only what you love, not what other people expect of you. Living on other people's terms leads to a generally unhappy and unsatisfied feeling. We'll feel like we never truly accomplished what we wanted and we'll regret having to live by others' standards. 

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On this episode of Book Review Monday I talk about Celeste Ng's book Little Fires Everywhere, a dramatic, and mysterious novel that uncovers the mysterious life of one Mia Warren. Throughout the episode I share what I liked about this novel, discuss its plot points and structure, as well as analyze what makes it a 5/5 book. I absolutely loved this book and I hope that through this review you'll be encouraged to read it as well and experience the amazing intrigue that I did whilst flipping through its pages. 

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What we think is scary. The future, past, and present have ways to creep up on us and make us want to clear our minds completely. This results in distractions. Distractions that give us something to do, something to stimulate our senses other than opening the door to our minds and checking what's inside. Jean finds herself in this situation, and this quote is one I believe many of us will be able to relate to.

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Failure is a part of all of our lives. We all take a shameful approach to understanding our own failures, blaming ourselves and not the actions we committed that got us there. Morgan Housel; author of The Psychology Of Money, writes about how we should understand the percentage of luck that goes into any given endeavor. Once we know this, our self-judgment will decrease, giving us more clarity as to if our failure was tied to actions, or a result of factors we cannot control. 

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Sam Walton ran a business that turned into something no one could have predicted. The rise of Walmart came with many struggles and in today's Daily Quote how Sam Walton, its founder, learned everything he knows today. 

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On today's Daily Book Quote I share a passage from Small Pleasures, a book about normal, day-to-day life, and it's at times mundane yet interesting occurrences.  Only noticing and telling others how happy they make you once they're gone is a horrible, yet common mistake. Appreciate the people in your life, tell them you appreciate them, and do so in a genuine manner. 

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