3 tips to get started with Commonplace Books
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📝 VIDEO OVERVIEW
If you’re looking to create a resource that daily inspires and ignites your creativity, a resource that continues to grow with you and recharges your intellectual battery, I think you’re gonna enjoy this video.
Today we’re diving into commonplace books.
In short this is a book (physical or digital) that houses the most interesting ideas, thoughts, and quotes you collect. I saw it once described as an intellectual scrapbook.
There are already a lot of videos out there on commonplace books. But i thought I’d join the conversation and hopefully provide a perspective that could help ya out.
And I thought what better way to do that than distilling a quote on commonplace books together. This is one of my favorite things to do. And I’m excited about this one because from these 5 sentences we’re gonna talk about:
- 3 tips on how to get started with a commonplace books
- 3 important truths
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CHAPTERS
00:00 The intellectual scrapbook
02:02 Commonplace books explained
03:47 How to read a book
07:51 Find the lego pieces
09:48 Revisit your ideas
12:31 Recap of 3 tips
13:58 Reading & writing are one activity
15:05 The world is full of signs
15:56 A book stamped with your personality
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Your comment about lego blocks in the future made me think that when you buy a lego kit you can make one model with it. But as you add more lego kits to your collection, you have so many pieces that you can create more intricate stuff! From your analogy, as you add knowledge to your PKM, each piece grows in value because you can link it to so many new (and old) ideas!
Yesssss! I love it!
One book will guide you to another one, to another one and so on. You read one book to find the next one. Book = article = post = blog = magazine etc
That's so true. Most of the next books I read are because they were mentioned in the current book I'm reading.
Austin Kleon calls those centrifugal books, books that propel you to several new books. That's why I always read the bibliography at the back of non-fiction books!
"Write something worth reading, or do something worth writing about." - Benjamin Franklin
Dang, that's good. Just saved. Reminds me of the phrase storytelling is story-living.