Do Interesting: Notice. Collect. Share. (Do Books Book 36)

The act of writing is helpful and doing it in public even more so. Regular writing, even for an audience of one, makes curiosity a habit, not a personality type.

as a way of remembering and acknowledging the noticing.

You’re used to capturing ideas.

Do something visual every day for 30 days.

‘The secret to being interesting is being interested,’

All of these little acts of attention are good in themselves but the real magic is in the repetition. A tiny creative act, repeated, gets powerful, quickly.

The key is to actively record something you’ve noticed. To consciously intervene so it doesn’t just pop like a soap bubble the minute your brain moves on.

Do something once, it’s great. Do it twice, you add connections and time. Keep doing it and those effects multiply. And then, if you do something adjacent, you get a whole heap of benefits.

Virginia Woolf described her ideal diary: I should like it to resemble some deep old desk or capacious hold-all, in which one flings a mass of odds and ends without looking them through. I should like to come back, after a year or two, and find that the collection had sorted itself and refined itself and coalesced, as such deposits so mysteriously