[[Notes]] - Topics: [[Organization]] - People: Nathaniel Drew - Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MruNugpHDV0 --- ## Summary - [[To organize your thoughts, you must first see your thoughts]]. - Become practiced at externalizing your ideas without editing. Become practiced at [[Honestly expressing yourself]]. - Organized and refine these raw ideas. - [[Refinements cultivates clarity]] and creates a richer understanding of these ideas. - Prioritize ideas to ensure that they get done. ## Notes ### Fireworks - To organize your stuff, you must see your stuff. - To organize yourself you must first see yourself - to see what's going on in your head. - "Keep all of these ideas in one place." - Stay focused, avoid distractions. - Fireworks - Flow of ideas for your mind to your hands. - This stage is chaotic. Embrace it order will come later. - [[Refinements cultivates clarity]]. The more you refine the clearer something becomes. - Challenge yourself to visualize your thoughts, ideas and concepts. - Externalize your ideas in order to see yourself. ### Prioritization - Time and attention. We only have so much of this. We must prioritize. = - The [Eisenhower matrix](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priority_Matrix). Conversation can help categorize ideas within this framework. - Converse. It is ideal to bounce ideas off, people you respect, believe in you, and are willing to tell you the truth. ### Timeline Start by hand drawing a timeline sequence your ideas. Identify relationships between these ideas. ### Express yourself - Get your ideas out of your head, don't edit yourself during this expressive phase. - [[It's hard to have clarity on what you're prioritizing, if you don't even know what you're prioritizing]]. ## Original ![[A simple way to organize your life-1.jpg]] ![[A simple way to organize your life-2.jpg]]