{"id":2246,"date":"2020-10-07T15:00:50","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T21:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=2246"},"modified":"2020-06-26T22:08:25","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T04:08:25","slug":"book-real-artists-dont-starve-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/07\/book-real-artists-dont-starve-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: Real Artists Don’t Starve (2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RealReal Artists Don\u2019t Starve
\n<\/u><\/strong>Year: 2017
\nAuthor: Jeff Goins
\nLength: 346 minutes \/ 5.77 hours<\/p>\n

I\u2019m a little conflicted with this book\u2019s message, mostly because it downplays its definitions at the beginning of what an \u201cartist\u201d really is. It would be nice to make a living on my writing, but this book isn\u2019t about how to do that. In fact, I\u2019m already the artist that this book describes: someone who sells their creative hobby while pursuing it on weeknights and weekends. I have a full-time job, so my art isn\u2019t my primary profession like the term \u201cstarving artist\u201d is meant to invoke. Sure, there are bits of useful advice sprinkled throughout this book, but it wasn\u2019t anything I hadn\u2019t already picked up by now.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the audience for this book is the individual who is thinking of taking a considerable risk and quitting their job to jump wholly into being an artist? Any more, the current Millennial mindset of \u201chustles\u201d makes this an old way of thinking. We don\u2019t have just one job: we have many, which we also juggle with our relationships and our hobbies. Furthermore, with online communities bringing together like-minded creative individuals with no limitations of geographical separation, some of the advice in this book is already dated three years after it was published.<\/p>\n

Even if I already knew a lot of the advice in this book, it was encouraging to know that I\u2019m on the right track for the artist I want to be. There are plenty of examples of successful artists in this book that give me hope that I\u2019m doing the right things to advance my artistic career. It even filled in a few gaps that connected pieces of information I had learned but hadn\u2019t put together yet. In the end, being an artist is a mindset, and it\u2019s not a binary \u201call or nothing\u201d that we used to consider it. Hopefully, we can soon retire the \u201cstarving artist\u201d moniker because many artists don\u2019t make a living on their art.<\/p>\n

Fairly evident advice for a redefined group of artists, I give Real Artists Don\u2019t Starve<\/em> 3.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n

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