Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

Sloan says the magic formula is to maintain your flow while working on your stock in the background.

“Post as though everyone who can read it has the power to fire you.”

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“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything—all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure—these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to d

“You’d like to think that nearly getting killed would be a permanently life-altering experience,”

If you want fans, you have to be a fan first. If you want to be accepted by a community, you have to first be a good citizen of that

I like to work while the world is sleeping, and share while the world is at work.

The way to get over the awkwardness in these situations is to stop treating them as interrogations, and start treating them as opportunities to connect with somebody by honestly and humbly explaining what it is that you do.

When a painter talks about her “work,” she could be talking about two different things: There’s the artwork, the finished piece, framed and hung on a gallery wall, and there’s the art work, all the day-to-day stuff that goes on behind the scenes in her studio: looking for inspiration, getting an idea, applying oil to a canvas, etc. There’s “paintin

“A lot of people are so used to just seeing the outcome of work. They never see the side of the work you go through to produce the outcome.” —Michael Jackson