Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Austin Kleon)

by Austin Kleon

creativity is always, in some sense, a collaboration, the result of a mind connected to other minds.

the ideas you share, the quality of the connections you make, and the conversations you start.

“That’s all any of us are: amateurs. We don’t live long enough to be anything else.” —Charlie Chaplin

Because they have little to lose, amateurs are willing to try anything and share the results.

Share what you love, and the people who love the same things will find you.

writing thousands and thousands of words about everything he could think of—his

Don’t think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine.

Make stuff you love and talk about stuff you love and you’ll attract people who love that kind of stuff. It’s that simple.