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Show Your Work!

book · in 15 sources (2018–2021)

Sources by year: 2018: 2 · 2019: 3 · 2020: 4 · 2021: 6

Threads

Also named in the threads: Ali's first book, which a publisher asked him to write (2020) · Ali learns to draw concept art (2021)

Often together

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

Austin Kleon (18) · show your work (10) · The 4-Hour Workweek (8) · aliabdaal.com (5) · Derek Sivers (3) · 6med (5) · Gary Vaynerchuk (2) · The Tim Ferriss Show (2) · Tim Ferriss (3) · Notion (4)

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
    • Show Your Work is the book Ali has gifted most: he keeps several copies at home and gives one to anyone scared to put themselves out there, as it is short and easy to get through. — 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 does not know what he thought when he first read Show Your Work, or how The 4-Hour Workweek, read at 17, changed him, because he never documented it. — 00:03:25
    • Austin Kleon (quoted): Chapter one of Show Your Work says you do not need to be a genius or an expert to share your process, document your work and show how you are learning. — 00:03:54
    • A total beginner at drawing, Ali is learning concept art, taking art lessons and, thanks to Show Your Work, documenting his process on Instagram and Twitter. — 00:04:24
  • 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
  • 2021-05-18 · 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 1 statement more in 2021 — all statements of 2021

2020

  • 2020-07-12 · One Simple Habit that Changed My Life — Ali: Reading and listening fast lets you discover books that can change your life, Ali says, such as The 4-Hour Workweek, Anything You Want and Show Your Work!, which he might otherwise have missed. — 00:03:29
  • 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: 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
    • Ali read Show Your Work by Austin Kleon in January 2016 and says it completely changed the game for him. — 00:03:41
    • Ali's lesson from Show Your Work: even if you are no expert, having done anything at all means you can write about that experience, and someone somewhere will find it helpful. — 00:04:23
    • Ali says the main idea of Show Your Work is that sharing your work with the world helps people and is an inherent good. — 00:04:23
    • 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
    • To the many people who ask him how to get over the fear of starting a YouTube channel, Ali says there is no way to get over it, but small steps and reading Show Your Work show there is little to fear. — 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
    • Ali says anyone who makes any kind of content, such as artists, painters and writers, will really benefit from Show Your Work, which takes about half an hour to read. — 00:05:51
  • 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 2 statements 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