[Book Review] Steal Like an Artist

this is a re-post from my instagram post.

Steal Like an Artist

Originally published: February 28, 2012
Author: Austin Kleon
Genres: Self-help

I was recommended to read this book a few days back, and today i had the opportunity to sit 7-8hours without internet. Okay the last part isn’t relevant. Anyway.⁣⁣
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This book is great for creative workers like artists, the ones who wanna be creative but don’t know what to do yet, and for me who needs any sorts of help to get through everyday life.⁣⁣
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You dont have to be a creative person to read this book. You just need to have the thoughts, even once, of wanting to be creative, to be deserving this book.⁣⁣
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It’s quite short and plain simple, no “special terms” like the kinds only certain group understand so you have to find its description on a business or designer (is there even one) vocabulary. So you can enjoy reading it between your lunch break, before bed, or on those rainy days where you dont wanna go anywhere.⁣⁣
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It’s a light reading. In the lightest way possible. Although it’s not as light as 4 squared comics.⁣⁣
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The book has 10 chapters, with the first chapter titled the same as the book’s. It goes on with many quotes from various persons, and it’s own taglines (like the most important aspect of the paragraph) as well. I really like the tiny drawings that the book has. And the quotes are thrown inside like a thought bubble? So it’s not plain texts. My kind of books.⁣⁣
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I have a few things I’d like to upload here, but to make it simpler, i only put one. As usual ✨⁣⁣

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[Book Review] Who Moved My Cheese? - Who would've thought this book slapped so hard

My review overall, obviously 5/5. 10/10.

I think it is available on so many languages. If you are not sure to read it in english, make sure to find it on Bahasa. You need to read this!! Especially during this difficult times. When our daily life is changing, and we are coping with it in any possible way.

Who moved my cheese?

Author: Spencer Johnson

Originally published: September 8, 1998

Pages: 32pp (Japanese version: 94)

I really, really, really recommend this book! Anyone could benefit from this book. It taught me how to change your perspective when your cheese has moved. Cheese here, is the equivalent to our job, money, goals in life, relationships, anything that we want or desired, which we think will lead us to happiness. Once obtained, we tend to preserve that situation, hoping that it will not change.

Truth is, things are constantly changing and we don’t realize it most of the time. This book will reflect human’s behavior towards that changes in our every day lives, using 2 mouses and 2 little-person. The 2 mouses are called Sniff (sense changes early) and Scurry (act fast), while the little-person are called Hem (denies changes, fearing it would lead to something worse) and Haw (realize that changes are good so he adapt to the situation).

So, the short version of the story is like this:

There are 2 mouses and 2 little humans living in a maze. They live everyday trying to find this cheese that they thought so incredible, it will make them happy and live sufficed hence not needing any other things. One day, that cheese disappeared, and the real story began.

The book is divided into 3 parts:

1. an opening, where there are these old school classmates who among them had known the story. Thus, the main part begin when he start telling the story to his old classmates.

2. main part

3. discussion part. Here, the classmates talk about the story they've just heard and reflect upon it.

You should read this book. This is a light reading. It claimed that it could be read for 2 hours. The Japanese version also claimed that it is a 2 hours reading. Well, i spent more than 2 hours for sure for sure lol. But it is a light reading, i cant stress this enough already. It is a fun thing to read, because the writer told it in a story telling way.

Have a nice/calm/productive/bearable quarantine! We. Can. Do. This!

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