Show Your Work! By Austin Kleon: Summary and Lessons
How to become findable when you hate the idea of self-promotion.
“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.”
Rating: 9/10
Related: Steal Like an Artist, Keep Going, The War of Art, Ignore Everybody, The Practice, The Creative Habit
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Show Your Work! Short Summary
In Show Your Work, Austin Kleon helps artists who hate the idea of self-promotion become findable. Steal Like an Artist was about stealing influence and ideas from other people. Show your work is about how to influence others by letting them steal from you. Highly recommended reading for artists and creative people.
A New Way of Operating
“Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.”—John Cleese
When I have the privilege of talking to my readers, the most common questions they ask me are about self-promotion.
