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You and Your Mind Garden
A mind garden is not a mind backyard. It’s not about dumping notes in there and forgetting about them. To tend to your garden, you need to plant new ideas. The best way to do this is by replanting stems and cuttings from existing ideas you’ve added to your garden—by consistently taking notes, and combining them together, a bit like grafting.
nesslabs.com • You and Your Mind Garden
In French, “cultiver son jardin intérieur” means to tend to your internal garden—to take care of your mind. The garden metaphor is particularly apt: taking care of your mind involves cultivating your curiosity (the seeds), growing your knowledge (the trees), and producing new thoughts (the fruits).
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • You and Your Mind Garden
the goal is to make sure all the information you consume (your input) can lead to increased productivity and creativity (your output) instead of festering and getting forgotten in your mind backyard.
nesslabs.com • You and Your Mind Garden
In French, “cultiver son jardin intérieur” means to tend to your internal garden—to take care of your mind.
nesslabs.com • You and Your Mind Garden
When you find some of these new combinations particularly interesting, share the seeds with fellow gardeners. Leverage the knowledge of other mind explorers. Keeping a digital garden where you can have a shareable copy of your ideas is a great way to contribute to the growth of our collective intelligence.
nesslabs.com • You and Your Mind Garden
Das fehlt mir am Ende doch noch. Wobei ich habe im Moment die Ahnung das da eine statische Webseite, gemacht von Tinderbox, ins Spiel kommen könnte.
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.”
— Jorge Luis Borges