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Clay Shirky on creativity: “On the spectrum of creative work, the difference between the mediocre and the good is vast. Mediocrity is, however, still on the spectrum; you can move from mediocre to good in increments. The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something.” Another part focuses on sharing something small every day, which gave me a lot of points to think about and work on. Each part really gives you some advice and something to think about and try out. If you want followers, be someone worth following. If you want to be interesting, you have to be interested. Amateurs will use whatever tools they can get their hands on to try to get their ideas into the world.
Like any creative individual, if you’re worth following people will follow you, they will like your content and leave comments when they have something to say. sometimes if someone hates something about your work, it can be fun to push that part even further to make somethign they’d hate even more (having your work hated by certain people can be a badge of honour) Hace unos días descubrí el trabajo de este artista, @austinkleon, y ahora soy una fiel seguidora de su metodología: habla, enseña y diviértete. Tres verbos salpicados de magia que convierten mi día a día en algo nuevo, único. ⠀You can’t plan on anything; you can only go about your work, as Isak Dinesen wrote, “every day, without hope or despair.” You can’t count on success; you can only leave open the possibility for it, and be ready to jump on and take the ride when it comes for you. The impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.” Amateurs know that contributing something is better than contributing nothing.” (Sam: This is similar to Dan Norris’s philosophy in Create or Hate .) You want hearts, not eyeballs – Stop caring about how many people read your stuff and how many people follow you online. The key takeaway from this chapter is you’re not worth following unless there is something to follow.
It completely changed the way I thought about sharing stuff online, and encouraged me to start my blog in January 2016. Who Should Read It? Because they have little to lose, amateurs are willing to try anything and share the results.” (Sam: Austin’s definition of the amateur is different to Steven Pressfield’s definition in The War of Art . Austin defines the amateur as the beginner.) Following up a successful series is really hard, especially a monster hit like Steal Like An Artist…but Austin not only does that here, he crushes it. This book is so good and so perfect for the moment, whether you’re an artist or an entrepreneur, a parent or a movie producer. There are so many strategies for pushing through despair, chaos or that looming sense that the world is falling to pieces around us. Austin doesn’t promise any magical solutions but he does think that all of us sitting down and getting to work—making good stuff—can add up in a big way. I think he’s right and I really loved this book.” The stories you tell about the work you do have a huge effect on how people feel and what they understand about your work, and how people feel and what they understand about your work effects how they value it.
Kleon started his career in a public library in Cleveland, Ohio. While working in a library, Kleon became a blogger and posted his poems. Kleon also taught library users how to use computers. [10] Kleon taught himself HTML and CSS. If you want people to know about what you do and the things you care about, you have to share. Talk about the things you love. Your voice will follow. 2. Think process, not product.
He even paraphrases other writers like Blake Butler by mentioning the open mode. There is some truth in both the ideas the author is sharing. But he should have expressed his opinion rather than projecting these two ideas onto the readers, which might confuse them. Find something you want to learn. And learn it in front of others. Share your process. Share your successes, and more importantly, your failures. Help others who want to be on the same path. 2. Think process, not productAs a reward, you’ll start to see the work you’re doing more clearly and feel like you’re making progress. And when you’re ready to share, you’ll have a surplus of material to choose from.
You have to make stuff, said journalist David Carr when he was asked if he had any advice for students. "No one is going to give a damn about your résumé; they want to see what you have made with your own little fingers." So don’t think of it as ‘starting over’– think of it as ‘beginning again’. Your next project is another opportunity to show your work. Teaching people doesn’t subtract value from what you do, it actually adds to it. When you teach someone how to do your work, you are, in effect, generating more interest in your work. People feel closer to your work because you’re letting them in on what you know.” Even if you don’t have the slightest interest in creativity, entrepreneurship or putting yourself out there in any capacity whatsoever, you should still read this because it’ll open up neural pathways and possibilities that you never knew existed. Teaching people doesn’t subtract value from what you do, it actually adds to it. When you teach someone how to do your work, you are, in effect, generating more interest in your work. People feel closer to your work because you’re letting them in on what you know. 7. Don’t Turn Into Human Spam
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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. Austin Kleon’s books always arrive like an unusually pleasant day in early spring… [ Keep Going] is a call, so sorely needed today, for ‘less despair’ and ‘more repair,’ and that is exactly what it offers.” The other problem is it relies on a popular logical fallacy. The notion that since someone is successful they know why they are successful. In truth though, most do not actually know this. They can speculate but they have no way to know what level of success they would have achieved taking a different approach.
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