Book Summary — Show your work

🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences

1. Encourage people to share their work online.
2. 10 ways proposed in this book are not methodology but inspiration.
3. By sharing your work, people who love the same thing as you could find you.

🎨 Impressions

The idea of this book is as clear as its title. It focuses on the main idea to “show your work on the internet” with several backup reasons. However, the idea in this book is not new, it is inspiring enough for me to take an action.

🙍‍ Who Should Read It?

Since the idea in this book is simple and the book is thin, it is suitable for anyone. Although you might not interested in being a blogger or content creator, this book could motivate you to share some of your works!!

☘️ How the Book Changed Me

• I am more comfortable sharing my book summary in Medium.

✍️ My Top 3 Quotes

• Share what you love, and the people who love the same thing will find you.
• 90% of our works are not good enough, so we should show them to others to see how they react.
• If you want a happy ending. That depends on where you stop your story.

📒 Summary + Notes

1.🤓 You don’t have to be a genius.

• Geniuses weren't generally born with talent but they learn and support each other to create great works.
• Amateurs have nothing to lose, so they can try and share the results
• Share what you love, and the people who love the same thing will find you

2.▶️ Think process, not product.

• People don’t value only the finished product but they also value the process of making that product
• Find art in your job and share it. There are people who interested in that art.
• Document on what you do to find stuff you could share

3.📨 Share something small, every day.

• Share your process every day from your documentation
• Daily dispatch is better than resume since it shows what you are working on right now
• 90% of our works are not good enough, so we should show them to others to see how they react
• Before sharing your work ask “So what?” yourself. If you’re unsure about whether to share it, leave it for 1 day and consider it again.
• Collecting your contents and turn them into something bigger and more substantial
• Have your own website to show who you are

4.📦 Open up your cabinet of curiosities.

• Your influences in your work are worth sharing
• Being honest with what you like is the best way to connect with people
• Always give credit to people who have helped you

5.🎶 Tell good stories.

• Work doesn’t speak for itself. You have to tell a story about it.
• A good story structure is tidy, rigid, and logical
• Find an opportunity to talk about yourself at a party

6.👨‍🏫 Teach what you know.

• Teaching doesn’t subtract value from what you do or increase competition. Nevertheless, people become more interested in your work and increase value to it.
• When you teach, you also learn. It is a loop.

7.🙉 Don’t turn into human spam.

• Don’t share too much or you will be human spam
• If you want to get, you have to give
• If you want followers, be someone worth following. You don’t need to ask people to follow you.

8.👊 Learn to take a punch.

• After sharing your work, be ready for both good and bad criticism. Relax and use this opportunity for new work.
• Consider only feedback from those who care about you and what you do

9.💰 Sell out.

• Asking for money only when you are confident that your work worth enough
• Put a donate button on your website to make money
• Collect email from people who visit your website and make an email list to keep in touch

10.⏳ Stick around.

• It’s very important not to quit prematurely
• Use the end of one project to light up the next one
• Take a break to open up to new thoughts