just a little note

In essence, a pact is a mini protocol for a personal experiment. It tells you what to do and how many times you will conduct the test. Not only does it provide a way to rekindle your curiosity, but it’s a guarantee of growth and discovery.

guess the reason for having the Post-it note Theory

where essentially what it is is having minimal effort what's the Baseline minimal effort that you can do to show up and start doing whatever it is that you're working on like a line drawing on a Post-It note is the beginning of your creative practice

By combining your pact with a metacognitive practice, you have now created your own life laboratory, equipped with everything you need to learn through deliberate action and reflection—an approach based on experimenting, assessing what worked, what didn’t, and what to change next.

When you collect lots of small data points, you create a “breadcrumb trail” and are more likely to notice overarching trends than if you were to focus only on the most salient experiences. Because of the time stamps, you’ll easily be able to remember where you were. There are no limitations as to what you can include in your field notes. Here are

scientists have a completely different definition of success the way to define it is learning something new as long as you learn something new you haven't failed as long as you collect new data

you haven't failed and that really changes everything if you start applying this experimental mindset in your life and in your work