Di drawing don finish. Na attempt eleven, di hands better well well pass how dem be for attempt four, and you fit see exactly where e still dey go wrong. Di cursor dey sidon inside di caption box and your thumb don dey hover on top di post button for four minutes.
Na good place to dey stand be dis. To put work outside while you still dey learn dey pull in di one thing wey solo practice no fit manufacture, and na other people eyes on di exact problem wey you dey work on. Na also di easiest step to keep postponing, and to postpone am dey expensive. Di fix no be more liver. Na frame, wey you write for one line on top di work, wey dey tell everybody wetin dem dey look and exactly wetin you want from dem.
How I go post work wey I never good for yet?
Talk wetin e be before anybody go guess: which attempt e be, wetin you dey practice, and di one thing wey you want note on. Attempt wey you label no be claim about your ability, na invitation to look at problem wey you name, and people dey respond to am completely different from unlabeled piece.
Under di hesitation, wetin usually dey na picture of big audience wey dey examine your work closely and dey draw conclusion about you. Dat picture wrong two times, and dem don measure di two errors. Thomas Gilovich, Victoria Medvec and Kenneth Savitsky call di first one di spotlight effect: people dey consistently overestimate how much others dey notice dem actions and dem appearance, because we dey anchor on our own vivid experience of ourselves and we no dey adjust anywhere near far enough for di fact say nobody else dey inside am.
Di second error dey run di other way and e more useful. Anna Bruk, Sabine Scholl and Herbert Bless find wetin dem call di beautiful mess effect: wen people imagine say na dem dey show vulnerability, dem dey focus on how bad e go look, but wen dem watch another person do di same thing, dem dey rate am noticeably more positive. Your attempt eleven, wey you post with honest label, dey read to other people as confidence. Na only from inside e dey read as exposure.
Wetin I go actually write for di caption?
Three short lines and nothing else: di number, di target, di ask. "Attempt 11. I dey work on hands, mostly di knuckles. If you dey draw, tell me one thing about di thumb."
Di number dey carry di heaviest load. E dey tell people say na one rep inside series, no be finished claim, and dat one quietly remove di standard wey dem for apply, and e dey put your own progress for record where you fit see am. Di target dey tell dem where to look, so di note wey come back go be about knuckles instead of about composition, wey you no dey work on and wey you no fit use yet.
Di ask matter pass, and na am people dey leave out. "Thoughts?" dey invite verdict, and verdict useless: you no fit practice am better next week. One specific question dey invite craft, and craft dey transfer. Ask wetin go make di thumb read like thumb. Ask which of two takes get steadier tempo. Di narrower di question, di more likely say person wey really sabi go answer am, because narrow question dey take dem twenty seconds while general one dey take essay wey dem no get time for.
How many people suppose see am first?
Three before three thousand. Post to di smallest room wey get at least one person wey really dey do di thing, and stay there for several weeks before you go wider.
Small room dey give better notes and safer failure. Inside group chat with three people wey dey draw, bad attempt dey get specific fix. For open platform, di same attempt go mostly get silence, wey no dey teach you anything but e still dey feel like verdict. Public get cost wey you no fit see for di beginning: di moment audience land, you go start to dey choose which attempts to show, and to dey choose di sweet ones na how learning in public dey turn to performing in public.
Build di room deliberately. Two or three people wey dey small ahead of you plus one person wey dey your level na better structure pass one famous person wey no go reply. Show up for dem threads first. Room wey you don dey contribute to for one month go answer you di day wey you post; room wey you just join dis morning no go answer.
Wetin I go do wen note pain me?
Talk thank you, write di note down, and no do anything about am for one day. Di delay dey separate di content of di feedback from di pain of am, and di two dey arrive together but you no need handle dem together.
Di next day, sort di note into one of three piles. Useful and correct, wey dey go straight inside di next attempt. Useful but no be now, wey dey enter list for wen you don move further, because plenty accurate advice dey aim at version of you wey dey two hundred hours from here. And no useful, wey dey happen and e dey alright. You ask one specific question; anybody wey answer different one don tell you about demself, no be about your work.
How I go comment on another person attempt eleven?
Name di exact thing wey dem do well, then answer di question wey dem actually ask. "Di knuckles better well well pass your last one, especially di index finger" worth pass fifty hearts and e dey take di same ten seconds.
Dis no be courtesy paragraph and e no be decoration on di article. Na di same skill wey you dey try build, wey you dey practice from di other side. Before you fit praise person precisely, you must look dem work close enough to talk wetin change, and na exactly di attention wey you never dey give your own, and e easier to learn am on another person piece because your ego no dey inside.
Di return no be only technical. Gallup long running work on recognition find say na only about one out of three US workers strongly agree say dem receive recognition or praise for good work for di past seven days, and wen people dey describe di recognition wey dem remember pass, money no be di top answer. Specific, public, named acknowledgment dey scarce, and e dey cost di giver one sentence.
One version of dis dey wey cost small more and worth more still: call somebody name for room wey dem no dey. Wen person dey look for somebody wey fit draw hands, or mix record, or debug build, to talk say "ask am, she don dey work on exactly dis" na career event for her and one sentence for you. Di room wey you build like dis na di room wey go dey there for your own attempt eleven.
Di room wey you build na di room wey you go get
None of dis dey ask you to get more liver. E dey ask you to be clearer, three lines on top di work, before your thumb start to hover anywhere. Talk di number, talk di target, ask di one question, and post am to three people wey dey do di thing.
Then keep going, because di point of learning in public no be approval from di beginning. Na say note from person wey don pass where you dey fit cut weeks comot from problem wey you for spend one month on top, and you no fit get dat note if you no let somebody see attempt eleven. Post pass wetin dey comfortable and post am earlier, keep di standard high for private, and dey precise about other people work as you dey go.
One year from now, di useful thing no go be di likes. Na four people wey sabi exactly wetin you dey practice and wey go tell you di truth inside one sentence.
Sources
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, The spotlight effect in social judgment: an egocentric bias in estimates of the salience of one's own actions and appearance
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Beautiful mess effect: Self-other differences in evaluation of showing vulnerability
- Gallup, The Importance of Employee Recognition: Low Cost, High Impact