{"id":828,"date":"2018-02-06T02:26:49","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T02:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marleypeifer.com\/dev\/?p=828"},"modified":"2022-04-19T13:50:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T20:50:30","slug":"share-your-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marleypeifer.com\/dev\/uncategorized\/share-your-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Share Your Work!"},"content":{"rendered":"

You might remember your math teacher telling you that the answer was important but “showing your work” was also part of the points on a test. As it turns out, your math teacher was right. This principle still applies today, especially for creative professionals such as visual artists. Social media takes sharing your work to a whole ‘nother level.<\/p>\n

This concept was driven home to me by Austin Kleon in his aptly named book\u00a0 Show Your Work<\/a> . I found out about Austin Kleon thanks to Chase Jarvis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>An image from Kleon’s book.<\/p>\n

I am an avid learner of new things and\u00a0 my goal right now is to keep my sharing\/teaching as up to date with my current passions and studies as possible. It is easy to want to wait until I am an expert about something before posting videos on youtube about it. However, Austin Kleon has convinced me that it is better to learn from a passionate student than a cynical and jaded old expert.<\/p>\n

Right now,\u00a0 I am most passionate about learning as much as I can about herpetoculture, snakes, bioactive vivaria, and the scaping of functional and aesthetic miniature ecosystems.<\/p>\n

Here is a recent youtube video I made about this exciting learning process that I knew nothing about 6 months ago: