If you want fans, you have to be a fan first. If you want to be accepted by a community, you have to first be a good citizen of that community. If yo… - Austin Kleon

If you want fans, you have to be a fan first. If you want to be accepted by a community, you have to first be a good citizen of that community. If you’re only pointing to your own stuff online, you’re doing it wrong. You have to be a connector.

If you want fans, you have to be a fan first. If you want to be accepted by a community, you have to first be a good citizen of that community.

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.

If you’ve never changed your mind about something, pinch yourself; you may be dead.

Using our body relaxes our mind, and when our mind gets relaxed, it opens up to having new thoughts.

For example, a lot of the ideas in this book started out as tweets, which then became blog posts, which then became book chapters. Small things, over time, can get big.