Today I will discuss how a book made me start writing and sharing my daily learning, beliefs, and progress online. I am talking about the book ‘Show Your Work’ by Austin Kleon.

This book made me realize that you don’t need to be an expert before you start writing online, every day you grow and teach your yesterday self what you learned today, the internet has billions of users and just imagine how many of these users could learn from what I have to say.

It’s just one among many lessons I got from this book, let’s me introduce you to more great advice from this book.

In this blog, through these 3 questions, I will summarize all the lessons I got from this book.

I will answer this question by looking at it from two different perspectives.

When crafting new skills or on a journey to achieve something, you learn a lot of valuable knowledge, insights, and hacks. These values become habits you don’t even remember having in the first place, but when you start writing it helps in 2 ways.

People love to watch amateurs try to master a skill. It is also true that people connect emotionally with those amateurs who remain consistent and never give up because this makes them feel they can also achieve what they want.

What happens when someone is emotionally connected to someone else?

They start following and joining you in your journey. That’s where you start building a personal brand without even trying to build one. And I have already told you how building a brand helps you financially in yesterday’s blog. I will still say in short, it connects you with people who will bring opportunities in your life, you can sell whatever you want providing you do it smartly (I am still not aware of how to do it, but in the future, I will study and share about this too).

This explains why sharing your progress and learning can benefit not only you but thousands of people.

I have created 3 steps plan to build an audience(Using this personally).

It’s important to share your likes, interests, hobbies, and goals online because this reveals your personality to your readers. Once they understand your personality they either like you or don’t care. If they like you, congratulations we just had our first follower. Make sure you be yourself and not pretend to be someone else, as you will be easily caught doing so.

I choose X to share short-form content like my interests, beliefs, etc, and then redirect those eyes to my newsletter which I am currently writing.

Stories let you connect with people emotionally and you will have to get good at it. This is something that I need more knowledge and practice to get good at. But you can follow proven story structures and add your personal story to it.

If you are someone like me you don’t have any good ending to write about, as I am still on the journey, Austin mentioned a framework that you can use to create a compelling story. Divide your story into 3 acts, the past act, the present act, and the future act. Explain what you did in your past, where are you presently, how is this different from your past and what are you going to do in the future.

You can read my attempt to create a story about my personal life.

I suck when I started writing (like now) because this is unknown territory for me. The only way I get good at any new skill is but doing it again and again and again and again, that’s when things mill make more sense to me and I will understand the knowledge from books and people much better. Austin says 90 percent of the work I post will be crap, keep storing those 10 percent to write complete books on them. Okay, that’s something I don’t plan or see myself doing but you can try.

Consistency is the key, building an audience is a long-run game so focus more on getting your work good and staying consistent.

Here are 7 tips straight from the author Austin.

This book inspired me to start sharing my journey and start my brand and I hope this blog inspires you similarly. I still suggest you read this book once and start learning and sharing.

That’s all for DAY5.