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

“You got to make your case.” —Kanye West

By letting go of our egos and sharing our process, we allow for the possibility of people having an ongoing connection with us and our work, which helps us move more of our product.

In fact, sharing your process might actually be most valuable if the products of your work aren’t easily shared, if you’re still in the apprentice stage of your work, if you can’t just slap up a portfolio and call it a day, or if your process doesn’t necessarily lead to tangible finished products.

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

By generously sharing their ideas and their knowledge, they often gain an audience that they can then leverage when they need it—for fellowship, feedback, or patronage.

You just have to be as generous as you can, but selfish enough to get your work done.

“I don’t believe in guilty pleasures. If you f---ing like something, like it.” —Dave Grohl

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 the beginner’s mind, there are many possibilities,” said Zen monk Shunryu Suzuki. “In the expert’s mind, there are few.”