Lessons from ‘Show Your Work’ by Austin Kleon (chapter 4)

CH4: OPEN UP YOUR CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

  • Share your influences
    • By sharing your influences, it can give the audience a glimpse of who you are, and what you do
      • What are all the things you consume in the day-to-day basis?
        • What books have you read? What kind of books do you read? Who are you subscribed to on youtube? Who do you follow in your social media accounts? Who inspires you? Who do you steal ideas from?
  • Be authentic, and be yourself
    • It is much harder than being said, but damn well worth it
    • Don’t let anyone make you feel bad about what you love
      • This takes time. Just keep doing you, and don’t stop what you are doing because soon you will start not giving a fuck (and that is what happened to me)
  • Attribution
    • Properly credit those who helped you, and information you used
    • Make it easier for the audience to know where you got that information from, and who is it?
      • Hyperlinks is useful (the website of where you found the information)