Building an audience is key to success as a creative person. Kleon suggests identifying your target audience and tailoring your work to their interests.Don't be afraid of criticism: Criticism is inevitable when sharing your work, but it can also be helpful. Kleon advises taking feedback constructively and using it to improve your work.Be generous: Sharing your work is about more than just self-promotion. Kleon emphasizes the importance of giving back to your community and being generous with your time and talents.

Attitude Is Important 

Instead of only sharing finished work, Kleon encourages artists to show their work in progress. This can help build a community and provide insight into the creative process.<ul><li> Show the designs you are building and how you ended up building them</li></ul>

Main Point #1: Share your process:

With the rise of social media, it's easier than ever to connect with others and share your work online. Kleon suggests using social media, blogs, and other platforms to showcase your creativity.

Embrace the digital age

Show your work is a guidebook for creative people to share their work and connect with others. The book emphasizes the importance of sharing and networking to build an audience and grow creatively.

Introduction 

Collaborating with others can help spark new ideas and bring fresh perspectives to your work. Kleon recommends networking and finding other people who have similar intrests to collaborate on different ideas

Be open to collaboration:

Overall, "Show Your Work!" provides practical advice for artists and creatives looking to share their work and connect with others. The book emphasizes the benefits of collaboration, building an audience, and embracing the digital age.Follow me on Deepstash for great content about UX Design, Human Psycology, Freelancing, Money and much more. I will be posting multiple times daily!

Book Summary 

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In his New York Times bestseller Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon showed readers how to unlock their creativity by “stealing” from the community of other movers and shakers. Now, in an even more forward-thinking and necessary book, he shows how to take that critical next step on a creative journey—getting known. Show Your Work! is about why generosity trumps genius. It’s about getting findable, about using the network instead of wasting time “networking.” It’s not self-promotion, it’s self-discovery—let others into your process, then let them steal from you. Filled with illustrations, quotes, stories, and examples, Show Your Work! offers ten transformative rules for being open, generous, brave, productive. In chapters such as You Don’t Have to Be a Genius; Share Something Small Every Day; and Stick Around, Kleon creates a user’s manual for embracing the communal nature of creativity— what he calls the “ecology of talent.” From broader life lessons about work (you can’t find your voice if you don’t use it) to the etiquette of sharing—and the dangers of oversharing—to the practicalities of Internet life (build a good domain name; give credit when credit is due), it’s an inspiring manifesto for succeeding as any kind of artist or entrepreneur in the digital age.

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In his New York Times bestseller Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon showed readers how to unlock their creativity by “stealing” from the community of other movers and shakers. Now, in an even more forward-thinking and necessary book, he shows how to take that critical next step on a creative journey—getting known. Show Your Work! is about why generosity trumps genius. It’s about getting findable, about using the network instead of wasting time “networking.” It’s not self-promotion, it’s self-discovery—let others into your process, then let them steal from you. Filled with illustrations, quotes, stories, and examples, Show Your Work! offers ten transformative rules for being open, generous, brave, productive. In chapters such as You Don’t Have to Be a Genius; Share Something Small Every Day; and Stick Around, Kleon creates a user’s manual for embracing the communal nature of creativity— what he calls the “ecology of talent.” From broader life lessons about work (you can’t find your voice if you don’t use it) to the etiquette of sharing—and the dangers of oversharing—to the practicalities of Internet life (build a good domain name; give credit when credit is due), it’s an inspiring manifesto for succeeding as any kind of artist or entrepreneur in the digital age.

I’m a writer who draws. I make art with words and books with pictures. Author of Steal Like An Artist and other bestsellers. Visit my website: http://austinkleon.com/