Chanel Anderson

Have a goal. work in its direction. Things that align with the goal are worth your time for now. other ideas, you can come back to them later- aka not important. Noise automatically cuts down if you have a direction.

"Be ruthless about what you ignore. Time, energy, and resources are so precious. You have to be ferocious about cutting your priorities—more than you realize and certainly more than is comfortable.

You can only deeply commit to a few things. One or two? Maybe three?

Every pretty good, sorta nice, kinda fun thing you abandon is like shedding a... See more

Each Zettelkasten note should be:

• Atomic: one idea per note

• Connected: link to related notes

• Contextualized: your reflection, not just a quote

A lot of little glimpses of America found their way into our sketchbooks-pictures of abandoned tractors and motel signs and jukeboxes. The more we sketched, the more we began to realize that sketching is both the motivation and the reward for experiencing new things. That is, we made a special point to travel to unusual places in order to sketch... See more

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You can sketch any subject-kangaroos, tow trucks, cirrus clouds, or clock repairmen at work.

And no one says you have to copy what you see; you can let your imagination transform any subject into a creative exaggeration of the real world.