 the time you put in to just like choose that particular color. I mean people are not able to see that. I recently stumbled upon this idea that you should work with your garage door open, opened up. But if you want to build on this analogy and understand it, working with your garage door up basically translates into some sort of transparency, right? Again it's not being afraid of sharing your work, of sharing your journey and you know documenting the process all along and if I have to translate this into some practical advice one can use it's essentially about sharing your work and adding some sort of transparency to your work. And I also think that it's kind of an interesting idea for most creative people out there who are too afraid of sharing their journey or sharing their path or their context and their struggles really as they might be too afraid of people judging their work and judging their journey and also judging their context and their craft and also judging the tools they use and the foods they eat and you know the life they are living so I'm going pretty meta here. You are not afraid of being silly and you are not afraid of sometimes looking stupid. And again it's about documenting your journey and sharing it online or sending it via postcard. And when thinking about this idea I also started to remember a movie I saw but there was one scene in a movie where this guy came in and he was new in his office. He was delivering like his intro speech because he was lost and at some point he said that you know my door is always open you can come in whenever you want and then he did this thing where he pulled off his door and like like threw the door away I'm not sure but essentially he had no door anymore so that people could come in or you know see when he wasn't there or even screwing around really. Which is not always a good strategy if you are working in the office and you are that person who wants to scroll through social media all day but then I started thinking once again that in this day of age people are always seeing the finished product. This is actually what we share online while we share on social media people can simply see the finished product they are not able to see the work you put in. So let's say you are programming or you know writing your blog trying to come up with that perfect font and also working on your design needs on your logo the time you put in to just like choose that particular color I mean people are not able to see that. People are not able to see the struggles the lack of motivation or discipline or call it whatever you want really because again that's not out there you are not working with your garage door open up and this sometimes might be a good strategy but for some people I don't think it is. I mean of course if you think you have some sort of a revolutionary product like Steve Jobs did and you know and if you are afraid that someone might steal it or something you can actually close the door but if you really think about it it's all interconnected. We are too afraid of showing our work because people might again judge us we are too afraid of going with an incomplete picture and we would rather not show the picture at all but your thought patterns are oftentimes buggy only in your mind. You understand people who are concerned about privacy and confidentiality but I do believe that sometimes creative people should let their ideas flow around and I know that there's there's there's one quote out there which states that that the secret to you know being creative is actually knowing how to hide your resources and this might be true but let's face it even though some people do have access to your resources and can to some degree reproduce your work and for the most part they do because you know we live on the internet but they won't be able to reproduce your thought patterns your your context your design taste the way you type or the way you phrase things or the way you think about things and this is why I started streaming my working sessions here on YouTube and also on Twitch and I'm streaming and I'm showing the things I would normally do anyway like updating my website or writing a script or possibly even editing a video live on stream I'm also planning at some point to start you know learning programming from scratch straight on stream and you know I might change my mind and I'm I'm not afraid to say it but overall I do enjoy this analogy working with your with your garage door open and also I want to take a note and say that this is simply a way of saying it you can of course replace it with something like working with your carport open and if you are a student you can also leave your door open so that people can come in for study session and you know things like that it's just an analogy guys don't don't get picky and you can also pull the door like JT did and I do not have a garage door that I can open up I believe those are kind of expensive anyway but if you want to shave a few seconds here and there each day I believe it's a pretty decent acquisition but again the main idea is to share your incomplete work to share the things you are working on right now or or or even your your struggles the things you are struggling with and if you want an inspiration burst you can check this book by Austin Cleon which runs under the name of show your work that's pretty obvious and this guy Austin Cleon is a writer who draws and he's talking about this thing called flow and it's not the same type of flow you're used to like getting into a flow state but more about the daily flow of input of your you know idea generation process and the flow is essentially a daily reminder that you sort of exist and then you have this next thing called stock and the stock is essentially the lasting content that you produce and based on your daily workflow and the things you are sharing online and the feedback loops you are quickly building that flow will soon transform into stock as the patterns will tied up together into a sparking cocktail of useful information and of course this is your decision I don't think you need to share everything really and it's also about the taste I mean you don't need to go and tackle the extremes but I think that for most people working with your garage door open uh might sometimes be your advantage they also learned that there is this twitch streamer who created a game using his community like the people who are in his chat so he created a game by connecting with people there because he was sharing his uh you know playing sessions there's also about the personality and the way he you know interacted with people but still pretty pretty damn good thing but overall I think that working with the door up sort of overshadows the negative aspects of it and it's also interesting because you might find like-minded people who really enjoy your work but they were not able to access it because you were not putting your work out there and again I read that online it's not an extended version of it really but I was thinking about it when trying to create my next video so I was struggling kind of process and footage so I was thinking like I wish I wish people could see the background of like like what's happening behind the scenes and I know that people are kind of sharing that online nowadays but there are still people out there who are not doing it so what I did I I jumped on the computer and I started typing I pulled out I scanned the online I pulled out the resources the articles everything was on my feed and I just like a huge brain dump and this video came out of it I hope you found it uh vaguely useful you can try experimenting with this method and uh you know start sharing your work and putting yourself out there and it's about finding the right balance the the things work for you and again thank you for watching and I will see you in the next one