Austin Kleon On Maintaining Healthy Habits, Growing As Parents, And Interrogating The Stoic Virtues

<p>Ryan speaks with his longtime friend fellow father Austin Kleon during a stop along his book tour for <a href="https://geni.us/SxHAWh1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Parenting, Love, and Raising Great Kids</em></a>. They discuss the life habits that they maintain in order to help fuel their creative success, why the most effective form of parenting is indirect, what parenting skills they are working on right now, how adopting a daily journaling habit vastly improved their lives, and more.</p><p>Austin Kleon is a writer, author, artist, speaker, and blogger whose work focuses on creativity in the modern world. Although he is most known for his five <em>New York Times</em> bestselling books <a href="https://geni.us/PjH7" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Steal Like An Artist:10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative</em></a>, <a href="https://geni.us/FzHAJ28" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Show Your Work!</em></a>, <a href="https://geni.us/TMF3Gz" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Keep Going</em></a>, <a href="https://geni.us/hHtdvT" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Steal Like An Artist Journal</em></a>, and <a href="https://geni.us/tCXjwPA" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Newspaper Blackout</em></a>, Austin has spoken for organizations such as Pixar, Google, SXSW, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oww7oB9rjgw" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">TEDx</a>, and <em>The Economist</em>. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife and sons. You can follow his work at <a href="https://austinkleon.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">austinkleon.com</a>, Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/austinkleon/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@austinkleon</a>, and Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/austinkleon" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@austinkleon</a>.</p><p>You can listen to a few of Austin’s other appearances on The Daily Stoic YouTube ch