Show Your Work by Austin Kleon (Summary, Key Ideas, & Book Review)
Channel: Robert's Theory
Date: 2020-11-15

The key idea is that Show Your Work! is a book about why generosity trumps genius. Presents a handful of tips and ways of thinking related to how we can start showing and allowing ourselves to get discovered using the network that surrounds us instead of wasting time “networking.” It’s not about self-promotion, but about self-discovery—letting the others into your process, stealing from them, and allowing them to steal from you. Filled with illustrations, quotes, stories, and examples, Show Your Work! offers ten transformative rules for being open, generous, brave, productive.

TIMESTAMPS:

1:02 - You don’t have to be genius.
2:40 - Think process, not product.
4:39 - Share something small every day.
5:41 - Open up your cabinet of curiosities.
6:56 - Tell good stories.
8:00 - Teach what you know.
9:46 - Don’t turn into human spam.
11:00 - Learn to take a punch.
12:24 - Sell out.
13:29 - Stick around.


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