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Austin Kleon

author · in 16 sources (2018–2021)

Works: Steal Like an Artist, Keep Going

Speaks in 5 sources; this page lists what is said about them.

Sources by year: 2018: 2 · 2019: 3 · 2020: 3 · 2021: 8

Threads

Also named in the threads: Ali's first book, which a publisher asked him to write (2020)

Often together

What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.

Show Your Work! (18) · show your work (8) · The 4-Hour Workweek (6) · aliabdaal.com (5) · Derek Sivers (3) · 6med (5) · Mac mini (2) · Tim Ferriss (3) · Notion (4) · passive income (2)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2021

  • 2021-01-06 · My PRODUCTIVE Bucket List (2021) — Ali: Books such as The 4-Hour Workweek, Derek Sivers's Anything You Want and Austin Kleon's Show Your Work had a huge impact on Ali's life; he would love his own book to come close to that impact on someone's life. — 00:00:54
  • 2021-01-27 · The Most PRODUCTIVE Desk Setups on YouTube — Ali has read Austin Kleon's Show Your Work and Steal Like an Artist many times and keeps them on his desk because he has been referencing them a lot. — 00:01:25
  • 2021-02-04 · How Writing Online Made me a Millionaire — Ali: On 2 January 2016 Ali discovered Austin Kleon's book Show Your Work, which he says single-handedly changed his life. — 00:01:27
    • Ali calls Show Your Work a guide to self-promotion for people who hate it: he used to think self-promotion dirty, but Austin Kleon frames it as showing your work. — 00:01:56
    • Ali emailed Austin Kleon to thank him for Show Your Work, and Kleon came on an interview on Ali's YouTube channel a few months before this video. — 00:09:09
    • Austin Kleon says that with a blog or any daily project, such as one Instagram post a day, you find out that it is not that you have something to say: you find out what you have to say. — 00:09:38
    • Austin Kleon calls writing a way of communicating with yourself: sitting at a keyboard for 45 minutes or a notebook for half an hour makes space to find out what you really feel and think. — 00:09:38
  • 2021-02-14 · The Book That MOST Changed My Life — recommendation: Ali: The 4-Hour Workweek is one of the three books that have most changed Ali's life; the other two are Austin Kleon's Show Your Work and Derek Sivers's Anything You Want. — 00:17:26
  • 2021-02-28 · 10 cheap purchases that improved my life — recommendation: Ali recommends Austin Kleon's trilogy, Show Your Work, Steal Like an Artist and Keep Going, and keeps physical copies of all three on his desk. — 00:03:14
    • Ali calls Austin Kleon's Show Your Work the book that most changed his life, because it encouraged him to write online. — 00:03:22
  • 2021-04-04 · 9 Lessons From My Favourite YouTuber — Austin Kleon (quoted): In Steal Like an Artist, which Ali calls very good, Austin Kleon says that when you first learn a craft such as YouTube, you learn by imitating other people. — 00:03:23
  • 2021-05-18 · My iMac Productivity Desk Setup — Ali has kept Austin Kleon's trilogy, Steal Like an Artist, Show Your Work and Keep Going, on his desk for months: in a slump he opens one at a random page and always learns something. — 00:03:43
  • …and 7 statements more in 2021 — all statements of 2021

2020

  • 2020-10-08 · How I Remember Everything I Read — Ali's three-sentence summary of Austin Kleon's Show Your Work: share your thoughts, process and work online for free; beginners can help other beginners; sharing attracts an audience that cares about the same things. — 00:05:48
  • 2020-11-03 · How to SPEED READ — Ali: For every non-fiction book, such as Austin Kleon's Show Your Work!, Ali's minimum in his Notion book notes is the book in three sentences, his impressions, who should read it, how it changed him and his top three quotes. — 00:08:46
  • 2020-11-15 · How I Gained 1 MILLION Subscribers — Ali: Among his lucky breaks, Ali names reading Austin Kleon's Show Your Work in 2016, which encouraged him to start his blog. — 00:18:12

2019

  • 2019-02-11 · 3 Books that Changed my Life — Ali read Show Your Work by Austin Kleon in January 2016 and says it completely changed the game for him. — 00:03:41
    • Since starting medical school and SixMed, Ali had toyed with a personal blog but could not get past the fear of self-promotion: that people would think him arrogant for a blog under his own name. — 00:03:41
    • After reading Show Your Work, Ali started his blog and wrote a few posts in 2016; he thinks without the book he would not have set up his YouTube channel, since the blog made him comfortable putting himself out there. — 00:04:53
    • Ali has had over 2,000 messages and comments from people inspired or taught by his content, and thinks none of it would have happened without Show Your Work. — 00:05:22
  • 2019-08-16 · Money, Relationships and Hair Loss - Answering your Assumptions — recommendation: Ali: For anyone interested in getting rich through entrepreneurship, Ali recommends reading The 4-Hour Workweek, I Will Teach You To Be Rich, Show Your Work, The Third Door and Shoe Dog. — 00:07:13
    • Ali felt imposter syndrome when he started his YouTube channel; reading Austin Kleon's Show Your Work completely eliminated it. — 00:20:18
  • 2019-09-06 · Life Advice Q&A with my Brother — recommendation: Ali: As starting points for book recommendations, Ali names the three books of his video Three Books That Changed My Life: The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss, Anything You Want by Derek Sivers and Show Your Work by Austin Kleon. — 00:08:34
  • …and 1 statement more in 2019 — all statements of 2019

2018

  • 2018-03-07 · Monthly Favourites #2 - Ali Abdaal — recommendation: Ali recommends Austin Kleon's book Show Your Work to anyone interested in sharing their work. — 00:15:12
    • Austin Kleon (quoted): In Show Your Work, Austin Kleon says to document your process of learning and put your work online, whether you are learning art, programming or writing. — 00:15:12
  • 2018-09-11 · My new podcast - Microphone setup + reflections — Ali wrote about Austin Kleon's Show Your Work on his blog when he first started it in January 2016, as his New Year's resolution. — 00:14:48
    • Austin Kleon (quoted): Against the feeling that no one will care about what you make, Austin Kleon advises asking whether it will help at least one person in some way; in most cases the answer is yes. — 00:15:18