Notes on the book "Show Your Work" by siniscollection

Notes on the book “Show Your Work”

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10 things about sharing like a artist

  • You don’t have to be a genius.
  • Think process, not product.
  • Share something small every day.
  • Open up your cabinet of curiosities.
  • Tell good stories.
  • Teach what you know.
  • Don’t turn into human spam.
  • Learn to take a punch.
  • Sell out.
  • Stick around

Notes on the book “Show Your Work”-

You don’t have to be a genius to share your work

  • For artist, the great problem to solve is how to get oneself noticed.
  • Find a scenius- Scenius are a group of people who support each other. It doesn’t take away from your achievements of great people, it just acknowledges that good work isn’t created in a vacuum, and that creativity is always, in some sense, a collaboration, the result of a mind connected to other minds.
  • Be an amateur- In the beginner’s mind, there are many possibilities. The stupidest possible creative act is still a creative act.
  • You can’t find your voice if you don’t use it.
  • If you want people to know about what you do and the things you care about, you have to share.
  • Read Obituaries- Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap to thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked.

Think process, not product

  • Take people behind the scenes.
  • A lot of people are so used to just seeing the outcome of work. They never see the side of the work you go through to produce the outcome.
  • Become a documentarian of what you do.
  • Documenting and recording your process as you go along has its own rewards.
  • When you’re ready to share, you’ll have a surplus of material to choose from.
  • Turn your flow into stock- If you work on something a little bit every day, you end up with something that is massive.

What I Learned From – The Whole-Brain Child

Share something small every day

  • Send out a daily dispatch. Put yourself, and your work, out there every day, and you’ll start meeting some amazing people.
  • Sometimes you always know what you’ve got.
  • Don’t say you don’t have enough time- We’ll are busy, but we all have 24 hours a day.
  • Try to find time in nooks and crannies, find it in the cracks between the big stuff- your commute, you lunch break , the few hours after kids go to bed. Miss an episode of your favourite TV show or miss 1 hour sleep, but find time.
  • Work when world sleep, share when world works.
  • Don’t let sharing precedence over actually doing work.
  • The “so what” test- There is a big difference between sharing and oversharing. If unsure to share or not- save it as draft for 24 hours.

  • Hope these Notes on the book “Show Your Work” help you to share more.