Ali discovers Austin Kleon's book Show Your Work, which gets him to start his blog (2016)
story · status: told 4×, last update 2021 · last event: mentioned (2021-02-28) · owner: Ali
Origin known from later mentions
2016 in the title is when this began; it first appears in the videos read here in 2018, so the earlier part is known only from what is said later.
About: Show Your Work!, Austin Kleon
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-09-11 | first in the videos (retold; it began earlier) | 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. | My new podcast - Microphone setup + reflections 00:14:48 |
| 2019-02-11 | retold | Ali read Show Your Work by Austin Kleon in January 2016 and says it completely changed the game for him. | 3 Books that Changed my Life 00:03:41 |
| 2019-08-16 | mentioned | Ali felt imposter syndrome when he started his YouTube channel; reading Austin Kleon's Show Your Work completely eliminated it. | Money, Relationships and Hair Loss - Answering your Assumptions 00:20:18 |
| 2020-11-15 | retold | Among his lucky breaks, Ali names reading Austin Kleon's Show Your Work in 2016, which encouraged him to start his blog. | How I Gained 1 MILLION Subscribers 00:18:12 |
| 2021-02-04 (happened 2016-01-02) | retold | On 2 January 2016 Ali discovered Austin Kleon's book Show Your Work, which he says single-handedly changed his life. | How Writing Online Made me a Millionaire 00:01:27 |
| 2021-02-04 | update | 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. | How Writing Online Made me a Millionaire 00:09:09 |
| 2021-02-14 | mentioned | 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. | The Book That MOST Changed My Life 00:17:26 |
| 2021-02-28 | mentioned | Ali calls Austin Kleon's Show Your Work the book that most changed his life, because it encouraged him to write online. | 10 cheap purchases that improved my life 00:03:22 |
What is said about it
11 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 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
- 2019-02-11 · 3 Books that Changed my Life — Ali: 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
- 2019-02-11 · 3 Books that Changed my Life — 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
- 2018-09-11 · My new podcast - Microphone setup + reflections — 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
- 2018-09-11 · My new podcast - Microphone setup + reflections — recommendation: Ali sets the bar that what you make should help at least one person: even a GCSE student's video on revising physics will be useful to someone, and he tries to meet that bar himself. — 00:15:18
- 2018-09-11 · My new podcast - Microphone setup + reflections — Ali makes this video for himself of a few months earlier, who would have liked to see someone starting a podcast show their setup and explain the rationale behind it. — 00:16:06
- 2019-02-11 · 3 Books that Changed my Life — 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
- 2019-02-11 · 3 Books that Changed my Life — 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
- 2019-02-11 · 3 Books that Changed my Life — recommendation: Ali: 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
- 2019-02-11 · 3 Books that Changed my Life — Ali adds that sharing yourself and your work with the world is only really a good thing if the message you share is positive. — 00:05:22
- 2019-02-11 · 3 Books that Changed my Life — recommendation: 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