About This Book

"Show Your Work!" by Austin Kleon provides 10 ways to share creativity and get discovered. Being part of a scenius is about contributing ideas, connections, and starting conversations. Raw enthusiasm is contagious and professionalism isn't as much. To start sharing work, think about what you want to learn and commit to learning it in front of others. Find a scenius, pay attention to what's not being shared, and make it happen. Share taste and influences and own all of it. Be brief, value people's time, and explain work to everyone. Take criticism and failure as learning opportunities.

Top Highlights

• The best way to get started on the path to sharing your work is to think about what you want to learn, and make a commitment to learning it in front of others. Find a scenius, pay attention to what others are sharing, and then start taking note of what they’re not sharing. Be on the lookout for voids that you can fill with your own efforts, no matt...
• If you want to be more effective when sharing yourself and your work, you need to become a better storyteller. You need to know what a good story is and how to tell one.
• The most important part of a story is its structure. A good story structure is tidy, sturdy, and logical. Unfortunately, most of life is messy, uncertain, and illogical. A lot of our raw experiences don’t fit neatly into a traditional fairy tale or a Hollywood plot. Sometimes we have to do a lot of cropping and editing to fit our lives into somethi...
• In order to be found, you have to be findable. I think there’s an easy way of putting your work out there and making it discoverable while you’re focused on getting really good at what you do.
• I’m going to try to teach you how to think about your work as a never-ending process, how to share your process in a way that attracts people who might be interested in what you do,