"Why do I keep a notebook at all?"
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"Why do I keep a notebook at all?"
WHY NOTEBOOKS?
Major reasons:
Minor reasons:
Major reasons:
- Reduce Repeated Thinking
- Prevent Lost Porgress
- Observe Mind
Minor reasons:
- Storage and Retrieval
- Living Strategicly
Theory of Notebooks
Too often, we think of notebooks as a way-station: a necessary stop en-route to the perfected, polished work of art. But what if the notebook is the work of art? What if the process of taking notes is the point?
That’s the essence of all this. I write in a notebook every day. But I almost never go back and look at what I wrote. Writing in a notebook is about transferring things from the world to your brain, not to your notebook. Your notebook is a lens for looking at the world, not a box to keep it in.
Russell Davies • Do Interesting: Notice. Collect. Share. (Do Books Book 36)
It is in the present moment that we begin to know ourselves. Joan Didion, a famous proponent of writing things down, began doing so at age five. She believed that notebooks were one of the best antidotes for a distracted world: “We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget w
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