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James Allen explains creative borrowing through David Bowie's example and advice from mentor Mary Morrissey about giving credit. He frames business as solving valuable problems and recommends Austin Kleon's book 'Steal Like an Artist.'
James Allen explains creative borrowing through David Bowie's example and advice from mentor Mary Morrissey about giving credit. He frames business as solving valuable problems and recommends Austin Kleon's book 'Steal Like an Artist.'
David Bowie said, the only art I'll ever study is stuff that I can steal from. One of my first mentors was Mary Morrissey. She told me, you can take people's work, but just give credit where credit is due. Business owners are problem solvers and problems have price tags. So the bigger the problem that you can solve, the more money you can make. What people really care about is, can this person help me? Can you help me? Sometimes the best way to explain these things is by stealing other people's work and giving it to these people. I don't need to create everything brand new. I can just say, oh, there's this really great book called A Steel Feel Like an Artist by Austin Kleon, and I am giving that to you. But I did it ethically because I name-dropped on who I took it from and why it's so awesome and why I think you should have it.
