Imagine being a student and getting your first gig based on a school project you posted online. Imagine if your next boss didn’t have to read your résumé because he already reads your blog. You can share your process in a way that attracts others. Think of your work as a never-ending process. It’s no longer enough to just make stuff and hope that people find it. 📒 Summary + Notes A new way of operating

As blogger Kathy Sierra says, “make people better at something they want to be better at” Take people step-by-step through part of your process. Create some tutorials and post them online. The minute you learn something, turn around and teach it to others.Carving out a space for yourself online, somewhere where you can express yourself and share your work, is still one of the best possible investments you can make with your time.Amateurs know that contributing something is better than contributing nothing.Starting the blog was the first step to starting my YouTube channel a year later, and the YouTube channel changed my life.It made me generally more comfortable with putting myself ‘out there’.It made me more comfortable with sharing my thoughts and my work online.How my life / behaviour / thoughts / ideas have changed as a result of reading the book. It also takes less than 30 minutes to read, so you’ve got no reason not to. If you’ve got an interest in creativity (of any sort) or entrepreneurship or business (of any sort), you should stop reading this and just read the book.Įven 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. I think this should be required reading for everyone in the world. It completely changed the way I thought about sharing stuff online, and encouraged me to start my blog in January 2016. This is one of the three books that most changed my life (the others being The 4-Hour Work Week and Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur ). By sharing your work online, you’ll attract an audience of people who care about the same stuff you do – this can change your life.

You don’t need to be an expert to share your work – beginners can easily help other beginners.Share your thoughts and your process and your work, online, for free.

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