[[Notes]] - Topics: [[Creativity]] - People: [[Charlotte Fraza]] - Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LhmdYa5vvA&t=75s --- ## Summary Always be logging. Before, during, and after events. The questions you had and the answers you discovered. Your successes and your failures - especially your failures. - Experiment log. - Record the (important) things you do - especially the failures. - Record your questions, your answers, and your learnings. - [[Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.]] - Brain dump. - A 5 minute brain dump is all it takes. - Do it before and after a working session. Do it as you start and end your day. - [[Only by anticipating potential failures can you discover potential solutions for success]]. - [[Take the time to think about your life]]. - Resource log. - Record the sources (e.g. videos, articles, people) you've discovered and used as part of your learning process. - Continuous log. - Capture your ideas in real-time. - [[It's the small ideas that, when pieced together, create something extraordinary.]] - Consolidation. - Review your notes periodically. - Organize, understand, and make sense of them. - Derive summaries and action items articulate your learnings and to guide your future. ## Notes ### Experiment logging - In science, you record all of your experiments - successful or not. You record all the questions you pose and the answers you seek. You also note down what you've learned from these experiments. - Maintain a logbook. For each experiment, record your hypotheses, your methods, and your results. - Learning from your failures is the most important. You can learn more from your failures than from your successes. - [[Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.]] - In our everyday lives, we typically only remember the outcomes of events, rather than the processes and details leading to those events. - By actively engaging in those events, by being present with yourself, you can learn much more from both your successes and your failures - no matter how small they are. - [[The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing]]. ### Brain dump - Before or after a working session, brain dump your thoughts about the work. - Note details, ideas, tasks, doubts, considerations, what could go wrong, and what could go right. - A 5 minute brain dump is all it takes. Afterwards, zoom out and organize the information on the page. Make connections between events and outcomes, questions and answers, problems and solutions. - [[Only by anticipating potential failures can you discover potential solutions for success]]. - [[Take the time to think about your life]]. ### Resource logging - Throughout your learning process, log all the resources you've discovered and used. - Resources could be videos, online articles, or even people you've spoken to. ### Continuous logging - In science, you continue writing thoughts about the experiment as you are conducting it. - Capture your ideas in real time. - [[Fleeting ideas comes from your idle mind making creative leaps beyond your current understanding of yourself and the world]]. - [[Small pieces of inspiration can reveal the whole picture of innovation]]. - [[It's the small ideas that, when pieced together, create something extraordinary.]] - [[Great things are done by a series of small things brought together]]. ### Consolidation - Review all the notes you've captured throughout the week. Organize and understand them. Make sense of them to come up with your conclusions. - Derive summaries and action items articulate your learnings and to guide your future. - Avoid crossing out (removing) thoughts and ideas that you don't currently like.