# Quote — Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!

> The minute you learn something, turn around and teach it to others. Share your reading list. Point to helpful reference materials. [...] Take people step-by-step through part of your process.

- Author: [Austin Kleon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/austin-kleon.md)
- Book: [Show Your Work!](https://www.leafyquotes.com/austin-kleon/show-your-work.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Austin_Kleon#Show_Your_Work!_(2014)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/austin-kleon/show-your-work/the-minute-you

## More from this book

> If you're only pointing to your own stuff online, you're doing it wrong. [...] If you want to get, you have to give. If you want to be noticed, you have to notice. Shut up and listen once in a while.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/austin-kleon/show-your-work/if-youre-only.md)

> When you feel like you've learned whatever there is to learn from what you're doing, it's time to change course and find something new to learn so that you can move forward. You can't be content with mastery; you have to push yourself to become a student again.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/austin-kleon/show-your-work/when-you-feel.md)

> It is actually true that life is all about "who you know". But who you know is largely dependent on who you are and what you do, and the people you know can't do anything for you if you're not doing good work.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/austin-kleon/show-your-work/it-is-actually.md)