Show your work - Book Review

The book is about showing your own work and put ideas in out world.

Author: Austin Kleon

Personal Rating: 5/5

Link: https://austinkleon.com/show-your-work/

Personal Review: Normally it’s weird to give 5 but I felt this resonated a lot with my thoughts. The books is small. Well balanced. You can read them very fast like in 1-2 hr max.
One personal suggestion, you should read each chapter and sit down and think about your own thoughts and process around it.

One of the key points of this book is, it will try to expose our internal talks/thoughts(the things we say in our mind) about our work, about sharing our ideas.

Note: I got this book idea from Ali Abdaal’s YouTube channel.

Quote from the book:

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

scoop up the scraps and the residue of your process and shape them into some interesting bit of media that you can share. You have to turn the invisible into something other people can see.

A daily dispatch is even better than a resume or a portfolio, because it shows what we’re working on right now.

Your stories will get better the more you tell them.

Your work is something you do, not who you are.

Beware of selling things that you love: When people are asked to get out their wallets, you find out how much they really value what you do.

The act of sharing is one of generosity — you’re putting something out there because you think it might be helpful or entertaining to someone on the other side of the screen.

The best way to flourish is to retain an amateur’s spirit and embrace uncertainty and the unknown.

The world is changing at such a rapid rate that it’s turning us all into amateurs

Become a documentarian of what you do.

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.