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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.