--- status: To Read Again title: Show Your Work! subtitle: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered description: In his New York Times bestseller Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon showed readers how to unlock their creativity by “stealing” from the community of other movers and shakers. Now, in an even more forward-thinking and necessary book, he shows how to take that critical next step on a creative journey—getting known. Show Your Work! is about why generosity trumps genius. It’s about getting findable, about using the network instead of wasting time “networking.” It’s not self-promotion, it’s self-discovery—let others into your process, then let them steal from you. Filled with illustrations, quotes, stories, and examples, Show Your Work! offers ten transformative rules for being open, generous, brave, productive. In chapters such as You Don’t Have to Be a Genius; Share Something Small Every Day; and Stick Around, Kleon creates a user’s manual for embracing the communal nature of creativity— what he calls the “ecology of talent.” From broader life lessons about work (you can’t find your voice if you don’t use it) to the etiquette of sharing—and the dangers of oversharing—to the practicalities of Internet life (build a good domain name; give credit when credit is due), it’s an inspiring manifesto for succeeding as any kind of artist or entrepreneur in the digital age. categories: - Non-fiction - Work - Personal Development - Productivity - Entrepreneurship - Business authors: - [[Austin Kleon]] published_on: 2014-03-06 publisher: Hachette UK pages: 207 isbn: 761,181,369 cover: http://books.google.com/books/content?id=9dh4EAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api local_cover: 50 Resources/51 Attachments/51.03 Public/Show Your Work! (book).jpg link: https://amzn.to/4bnCuVe tags: - type/book - books - summaries - creativity - content_creation - work - sharing - build_in_public - zone/areas - zone/areas/literature_notes created: 2024-07-05T15:22 updated: 2026-04-01T14:43 public_note: true --- # Show Your Work! (book) - Author(s): [[Austin Kleon]] - Link: https://amzn.to/4bnCuVe ![[Show Your Work! (book).jpg|200]] # Brief description # Key quotes > ... # Key ideas - Share everything you know - There is an art behind every profession, and if you present it in a compelling way, it will interest a lot of people - Storytelling matters; tell good stories! - Share everytime you learn something - Share whatever you're working on. People want to see behind the scenes - Become a documentarian of your work / of what you do - Conditions for sharing - Helpful - Entertaining - Collect people's e-mail addresses. When you gain notoriety, those fans can be turned into patrons - Every day, put a piece of media online; this can be a picture of you working, advice, the finished product, etc - Create a space for yourself on the Web - Create your own domain. You want a reliable place where people can access your content - Being present on the Internet is a great advantage, which will lead to opportunities and friendships - If you want fans, be a fan first - Be a good member of the community # Share everything - Take people step by step through your processes - Make people better at something they want to get better at - Share techniques, recipes, skills, tools we're skilled with - Show your work - Determine what you want to learn and make a commitment to learning it in front of others # Teaching doesn't mean instant competition - Teaching people adds value - Esprit d'abondance - Generates more interest in your work - You can't find your voice if you don't use it. Talk about the things you love # Amateurs vs pros - Amateurs aren't afraid of making mistakes or looking ridiculous in public # Process vs result of the process - Process: execution - Result of the process: result # Stock and flow * Economic concept * Flow is the feed (posts & tweets * Stream of daily updates that remind people you exist * Stock is the durable stuff * Content that we product that's interesting now and will continue to be * What people discover via search * Advice: identify patterns in your flow and turn those into stock * # Interesting quotes - [[Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make big choices in life]] - [[People I've lost in my life inspire me to live fully every single day]] - [[If you're serious about growth, think about processes]] - Artwork vs Art work - "People often ask me 'How do you find time for all this?' and I answer, 'I look for it'"