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1. Introduction: T. We're living in a
very strange time. And everyone perhaps is
trying to find a way to keep their ideas
intact or at least try to remember this
brilliant idea that they thought about yesterday without losing them
into the ether. And of course,
nowadays articulating complex ideas in front of an audience in front of a class, and in front of
prospective clients, or even just to put down these ideas on paper
as block posts, that you can send
out newsletters or put them into a video script. It's such a crucial skill
that in this class, I'm very happy to
bring you guys along with me to sort of explore what the skill entails
and to help you to develop a system for
you to capture your ideas, your insights, and your
fascinations with the world into a system you can trust that then you can draw
an inspiration from. Hello. My name is Robert Malden, and I'm an educator who
lives on the Internet, and now I'm here trying
to teach people how to derive more joy out
of reading and writing. My ultimate passion
is education. And throughout those moments
when I'm not dealing with the university bureaucracy
or writing research papers, I'm typically on the Internet, packaging what I've learned
from my research into digestible video essays and pieces of writing
via my newsletter. And over the course
of seven years, we've accumulated over
350,000 subscribers on YouTube alongside 14,000
readers for my newsletter. So in this class,
I'm very excited to walk you through my process of how I turn raw
research and data points, and certain observations
that I have through a system and then
synthesize them into something more consumable
for a general audience or for someone who wants to learn something
new about the world. We'll talk about
how to never forget a good idea ever again. We'll talk about how
to do basic research, and we'll talk about how
to develop a system to organize the research
into a common place book. And by the end of this class, I want you to feel confident about your
own ideas capturing system and to show that system off in the project
tap down below. And my ultimate
challenge for you is can you turn a complicated idea into a short piece of writing
and can you convey your ideas effectively in
that piece of writing. Anyway, there's absolutely
no time to waste, so I'll see you in the first class.
2. Develop Your Own System of Ideas: I guess the first thing that we really have to talk about is not necessarily about the system for capturing ideas per se, and of course, we're going to
dive into a lot of systems. We're going to give
you a lot of tools, and we're going to
give you a lot of gimmicks that you can use to capture your ideas and to
build a system for your ideas. We're all going to cover that in the classes later in
the upcoming classes. But right now, I
just want to set the direction or the orientation
of this class straight. So we have something to
work off of somewhat of, like, a foundation for
us to jump off of. So throughout these
years where I've worked on YouTube
quite extensively, And for the past
five years, really, that I've been doing
a lot of sort of traditionally
academic research at the University of Melbourne. It never ceases to surprise me how
differently people work. One method of research
work from somebody, and, for example, recently, I've just concluded my honors graduation thesis
or honors thesis. And it just fascinates
me so much so that I started investigating
how people collect ideas, how people synthesize
these ideas together, or what are some of
the schedules that people go on to make
those ideas come true. And how can I learn from
those people and to absorb their methods for capturing ideas and observing the world. So, what can I learn
from people around me? And at the same time, whenever I read a biography, whenever I try to
look at, for example, the life of Leonardo Da
vinci, or, for example, I take a look at the life of Susan Santag, there
are these weird, idiosyncratic things
that they do, which all somehow
come together and those weird routines
and systems. They're so personalized to that one person that we almost can't replicate those systems. And I think nowadays
on the Internet, we're always trying to look for the perfect system or
the perfect gimmick. Or the perfect rule of
thumb that we can use to land better ideas to capture
ideas more effectively, to schedule how to
turn our ideas into tangible products like writing or video scripts or whatever, or a class like this one, that we somehow
forget that ideas or the movement of thinking
is such a personalized thing. It's such a thing that's
so unique to you that sometimes you don't even know how to capture your own ideas. You don't even know how your
own brain moves sometimes. So before we actually
diving into the lessons or the tips and tricks that I'm going to share with
you with regards to capturing our ideas and allowing
those ideas to blossom. With each lesson with
each upcoming lesson, I'm also going to introduce one critical mindset and that I think you
should take away with you on top of the system or the gimmick or the
direction that I'm going to give you
for capturing ideas. And I would even recommend
you to pay more attention, to the mindset
changes instead of the gimick that you can take away from the upcoming lessons. And to somehow rework these gimmicks in your
favor or to somehow take the mindset with
you and then build your own little gimmick or your own little system
of capturing ideas. If a phone doesn't work
for you, try a notebook. If a notebook doesn't
work for you, try a digital tablet. And I want to challenge
you to develop your own system so that when people read about your
system, they're like, That's a really cool system. I really like how you use sticky notes in this
very unique way. I really like how you use colored pens in this
very specific way. And I want to emulate that. So now the discussion opens up. You can inspire other people
to develop their systems. And I think the central
goal with this class, for me, at least, is to
inspire other people. To not necessarily
adopt my system, but to find their own avenue
to observe the world deeper, to think a little clearer, to synthesize interesting ideas in their heads so
that they can go off. They can start writing
their own things, they can start producing
their own video, scripts, they can start
writing their own essays, and that's really
what I want to see. By the end of this class. If
you're not aware of it yet, there's a project tab that allows you to
submit a project, a class project for this class. And the end goal here is through taking inspiration from
the subsequent classes. Hopefully you can develop your own ideas capturing system. And I'm super excited to getting to the nitty
gritties with you guys. And now, let us move
on to the next lesson.
3. Capture, Articulate and Connect Ideas: So a while ago, I
was going through my fair share of
Internet scrolling time. And I remember maybe I was scrolling on Instagram
or YouTube shorts, and I came across a video
with David Lynch's subject, and Lynch was basically talking
about this fear that he has of forgetting a
really good idea. And sometimes if we
really think about it, the more of the story is
ideas of fickle beings. Sometimes you can conceive
a really good idea, and sometimes you
can't even think of anything original or exciting. But sometimes these
exciting ideas will keep popping
up out of nowhere. And your job as someone
who wants to seize these ideas and hopefully
turn them into something that you can present
to your audience, you need to somehow
develop a way or, like, a net to capture these ideas when they do veer their heads. So that when you do encounter one of these really good ideas, you don't run yourself into
the trouble of forgetting it. So in this lesson, we're
going to split up the ideas capturing stage into
three distinct stages, which can help you to figure out which idea is worth
capturing, which one is not. The first stage is simply
the capturing stage, and this is the fly
trap that will capture absolutely everything that
comes into your mind. And the second stage will
be the articulation stage. And the articulation
stage forces you to articulate these ideas into
a more cohesive format. And the third stage is the connection stage where you're actively going to connect these ideas into a web or associate this idea with many of the other ideas
that you already have. So I'm going to explain
each and every one of these stages with
reference to some of the things that I'm using
personally and keeping mind from the previous lesson that you're supposed to adapt. These essential concepts
into your own system. So if you're seduced by a notebook that I'm
using or a technique that I'm doing with my
no capturing system or my idea capturing system, don't just go along with it. Think about why
you find my way of capturing ideas interesting
and turn it into your own version because I think no two humans are supposed to capture ideas the same we're
so different as people. So first of all, the
idea is capturing stage. This stage is perhaps,
at least for me, the most challenging stage
to deal with because this is when you have to
pay attention to absolutely everything
in your surroundings. The tricky thing with
spotting an idea is that sometimes you
don't know which idea is a good idea and which
one is just going to run out or peter
out 2 seconds later, or which one is actually
going to bear fruit into something more
substantial later when you run through the
articulation stage and a connection So
here's a rule of thumb. When you're in the capturing
stage or when you're in the flytrap stage,
aim for quantity. Don't aim for, like, quality, and don't second guess yourself. If you think you have an
idea about something, if you think you have an insight during a specific
moment, note them down. And this noting process could take so many different forms. For me, personally, I
use one of two methods. One method is that I simply carry a notebook around with me. This is actually a
traveler's notebook, and it's small enough
for me to carry around, and it's small enough for me
to note down anything in it. That's why a lot of the
entries in this notebook, they don't really make much
sense to other people, but they make perfect
sense They're typically writting
very small fragments. So here is my sort of way of capturing absolutely everything
that have come across. Or I might get crucified for
the second method because sometimes I would have a really good insight
when I'm reading a book, and maybe I won't have my
notebook around with me. So, hence, I've resorted
to the second method, which is noting things down
in the margins of the book. And in fact, this is my copy of Ulysses, James
Sorces Ulysses. And we know how dense
this book really is. We know how much we can
just sink our teeth into this book and pull all
the illusions out of it. Hence, in this copy,
I have metaphors, no sign universal post. And over here, I have some
Dublin slangs that I've noted down for myself before
I travel to Dublin, hopefully I can pick up
some slangs before I go. So those are my two methods of capturing ideas or capturing
spontaneous ideas. Some people like to use the
notes app on their iPhones or some people like to
just note it down with a piece of paper
or on a receipt, or some other people, they simply note it down on a napkin. The point with these
capturing systems is that you want it to be
so immediate that you don't really have to
think about anything because sometimes what
might not seem like a good idea in the moment might become something
fairly significant later on. So if you don't really want
to gamble that idea away, I suggest that you
submit to this principle of noting everything down
until stage number two, which is the articulation stage. The articulation stage,
for me, at least, is kind of like writing a journal entry or
writing a diary entry, but with the support of some of the ideas that you've captured
from the capturing stage. So if you go through
your capturing system, if you go through
this little notebook right here and you find
something really interesting, the articulation stage will
simply be you writing 100, 200 words about that idea that you really
found interesting. You can organize these
ideas in a notebook. You can organize them in a
folder from your computer, or you can organize
it the way that I do it on my remarkable tablet. So on this device
here, there are these little folders
that I can click into. And these folders are basically organized under specific titles, and these titles
correspond to some of the ideas that I've collected
in my capturing system. So I really love just writing
about some of these ideas. And eventually,
some of these ideas actually turn into an
article on substack Video script or
something that I just want to film into a video.
And here's the best part. This remarkable thing folds out with a keyboard and it folds
out into a little laptop. So that makes the
articulation stage, especially fun for
me personally. But I don't think it's
completely necessary to have a remarkable for you to
do the articulation thing. Like I said, you can do
it in a word document. You can do it the way that
you find the most convenient. And again, you want
to remove resistance, so you're not stuck in the level of perfecting your system, but you really should organize these systems in a way
that they work for you. You're not working
for the system, but you want them to
work for you in the end. And now after talking about
the articulation stage, we are here at the
very last stage of our ideas capturing process, which is the connection stage. And here's where
things get really interesting because
in my experience, ideas are not really
that fun in isolation. A single idea is simply a fact. You know something
about something now. But an inside, on
the other hand. That is typically a
result of multiple ideas associating themselves together
into this greater hole. And that can only be revealed
in this connection stage. And here's where most of
the magic happens for me. And for that, I do most of my sort of connection
stage work on my computer. As general of thumb, the connection stage
is all about bringing all the ideas that
you've articulated to yourself in the
articulation stage. Into something new or you're trying to connect
multiple ideas together, and what you're going to end
up with is typically like a working YouTube script or
a working piece of writing. Personally, as
somebody who likes to compartmentalizes life, I tend to do this
ideas associating work in notion for YouTube videos and for
substack articles. And in the case of more
academic research, so if I have to read
a research paper or if I have to write
an article for a class, or if I want to do some more rigorous or
scholarship based research, I resort to obsidian, which is this wonderful
app that allows me to put everything down into a document
and then make a mind map. Out of it. But then
again, there are alternatives to
notion and obsidian, so you're not really stuck
dead on these two apps. So I would recommend you to
seek out some alternatives, or if you really do
like this idea of using notion and obsidian
to associate your ideas. Well, go ahead. So that concludes our little
exploration of how to keep an idea intact or how to never
forget an idea ever again. A brief summary, first, you need to capture every
single idea that you come across because you never know which one is
going to bear fruit. And second of all, you
want to try to articulate these ideas to yourself in
the articulation stage. And finally, you want
to find a system that allows you to associate
these ideas into clumps. And these clumps will
serve as your inspiration. And these little clusters
of ideas are going to be the basis for what we're going to cover
in the next lesson, which is how to make a common
place book or how to create a repository of all
your ideas to turn them into something
more creative later on. Nonetheless, that's all I
want to cover in this lesson, and I will see you
In the next one.
4. Build Your Commonplace Book: All right. Hello, and welcome to perhaps my favorite part
of this entire course, which is to somehow
guide you guys through the current process of me developing a new
common place book. And I think this is
the perfect time to show a lesson like this
because I'm actually currently in the process of completely migrating my
old common place book, which used to live on notion. I'm migrating all of them to this new cloud service thing
for a remarkable tablet. So I'm currently going
through that entire process. And I think through showcasing what I'm
going through right now, through showcasing
the skeleton or showing you guys the process of building a common
place book in real time, because is actually
going to be a lot more useful instead of
just me showcasing my intricate and complex and impressive and
common placebook. So, the main objective
for today's lesson is going to be very simple,
at the same time, very exciting because you're actually going to
be going off on your own after this lesson to construct your own
common placebook. I want to give you two
orientations of not taking or two mindsets that you
can bring into your not taking and common
place book construction. One of them is going to be for more sort of everyday no taking. If you read a book, you want
to take some notes from a book to put into a
common place book, and the other one is going
to be more research based, which demands a completely
different tool altogether. So in this case, I'm going
to introduce you guys to two separate apps or two different ways of
organizing your ideas. And again, if you don't have some of the tools that I have, it's not necessary
for you to buy one of these because they're
quite expensive. And I think sometimes if
I weren't in academia, I would have not
purchased something as ridiculous as remarkable. I'm sure you can find
alternative apps, but here's just a
real time look at my sort of ideas
capturing system. So right now, I'm
going to pretend I'm in one of those
Zoom meetings. So let me share my screen
with you real quick. So we're looking at right now is kind of this main page of my remarkable page.
It says my files. And I've organized everything under four different categories, business, which is everything
that I'm running online, including the YouTube channel, including the paid newsletter
that I run on the side and everything else from writing to research to everything else. And I have my common placebook, which is what I'm currently
in the process of constructing personal tax forms, stuff, Auto stuff that you 't
really have to worry about. And, of course, University, which I used to store all
of my in class reading. So, I think that's a pretty
reasonable way to organize your common place
book split them off into different
sections of your life. Because the last
thing you want is for some area of your life to
step into another area. So you don't really get
that distance because as overworked workaholics
in the 21st century, we all run the risk of
permanently burning out. If we don't have those
clear set boundaries between these different
areas of life. So, I'm a big
advocate for dividing your life up into into folders. So for the purpose of this
sort of systems tour, I'm only going to focus on the common placebook
and the business tap. So the common placebook
here consists of book notes and courses notes. So I've been taking a lot
more Skillshare courses nowadays since Skillshare is
making this course happen. I literally spent
the entirety of today at home watching some
really interesting courses. So here are some of my notes from this course
from Nathaniel Drew. He was giving some
tips on how to speak in front of a And the way that I sort of
approach note taking is through a very
simple flow method. And here's the first insight
from this systems tour, which is that when you
want to take notes from a source that you don't really care to cite
in the future, or if you're simply just
reading something online. And if you don't mind
the act of paraphrasing, the flow method is one of
the easiest ways for you to capture your ideas and to organize them into
a complace book. So over here, we
have, like, major headings like
authenticity matters, how to be comfortable
in front of the camera. So via bullet points, you can break up your ideas into smaller and smaller subsections. And in the end, you
end up with one of these like notebooks, and you can just
store me in a folder. At least this is my
organization assistant. But book notes, on
the other hand. I've divided them into
folders representing titles. Here's critique of pure reason. Here's expressionism, Spinoza by Delus and here's meditation on
first philosophy. So in this folder, there are six different notebooking total, and each notebook is one meditation from
Decarts meditations. And I'm just going to go
into the fifth meditation. This was before the
day is when I had the keyboard for this
remarkable tablet. So I was actually hand writing
all of these notes down. So it's organized into, again, the flow
method, big ideas, supporting ideas,
supporting ideas, big ideas, supporting ideas,
and supporting ideas. And because I'm
currently migrating auto stuff or auto notes from Notion over here into this remarkable plus
computer system, this folder here
is going to grow. It's going to have
more subfolders for Other philosophy books or
other books of literature. So for books that I'm
currently reading or for line articles that
I'm capturing or for some of the courses that
I'm taking on the Internet, they all end up in
a common place book in my remarkable app. Speaking of synthesizing
ideas from Lesson number two, which is to capture the idea, run it through articulation, and run it into a sort
of connection stage. Connection stage really happens all over here in my
own substack essays, place. Here's a very
simple flow chart for one of the articles that
I'm brainstorming right now, which is an article on sort of instability of the
identity of an author, and that's a piece that I'm currently drafting
and researching for. And a flow chart like this
is something that I would consider as a connection
stage idea because I'm deliberately bringing
in various sources that have already explored
or various notes that have already captured
in notion and am I remarkable that I can turn into a full article later on.
And the rest of these are drafts for my substack articles, because sometimes I like to type on this remarkable tablet, and I like to sort of copy and paste this onto
a word document, and that's where the editing
and the rewriting happens. But over here, this
is a prime example of me in connection stage
where I'm associating different ideas together
that I can then use later on to turn them into something
more polished in word. So that was a brave look
at my ideas organization, how I run ideas, especially from the articulation stage
to the connection stage. Put everything together.
That's going to be my common place book. And next, I'm going
to show you one of my favorite things that
I've discovered in the last two to three years.
And this is obsidium. If the flow note taking
method is really good for books that you read on
the site or online articles. This right here, obsidian, the obsidian app is kind of like the heavy duty version
of a commonplace book. And for me, I only
reserve this app for really technical
academic research, or if I really do care
about precisely citing, specific lines from a book or citing specific
lines of a poem to construct a research
article or to construct a research proposal
or to construct a thesis. The entire application here
is free, and as you can see, there's a really cool function
here that allows you to associate different ideas
together into a mind map. And this mine map right here is actually pretty easy to make. So as you can see over here, there are a lot of
these hyperlinks. So if I click on
one of these links, it's going to turn
into a double bracket So essentially, if I want to associate this page right
here to another page, I simply have to just
tap double bracket, and if I want to
associate it to, for example, the
literary theory, Reda Falski for whatever reason, so I can just type in
Redafski and that's going to create a link in
the web right here. So whenever I look up, for example, keep thinkers,
as you can see, right here, it's going to be connected to the page that we were
just looking at before against interpretation
because we've created this link right here
with the rest of the web. There are a lot of
fantastic tutorials online, which can teach you better
than I could because I'm using quite a basic function for obsidium right here, which I'm just doing some primitive linking between
different documents. But I do want to draw your
attention to the sort of note taking format
that I use for obsidiu. Because more often than not
in the academy or academia, plagiarism is a really big deal. So sometimes if you want to reference someone or if
you want to quote someone, you actually have to have to
very precise que note down. You want to re modify that quote just to avoid plagiarism, but you still have to
credit the original author. If you're also in the business
of academic research, my format for taking notes
is that I will first of all, establish a theme for the kind
of notes that I'm taking. So over here is the limits of Foucau's theory of
A exploitation. And I'm going to just copy
and paste a quote down from the original text wholesale
and give the page number. So it's easier to cite later on. And later on, I'm going to have an extended commentary on all the stuff that
I've captured. So it's basically a
three part system theme, the quote and your
personal commentaries. So the theme allows
you to organize some of the stuff that
you've captured from a book, and the commentaries
allows you to articulate this idea to
yourself once again, and the quote is something
that you can use for citation. And the beauty of
having a system like this is that you
essentially don't have to return to the source
text again to pull out a citation or pull out something that
you have to remember. So if you are in the business of being really precise and
being really anal retentive about having the precise word
or if you really want to construct a mind
map like this as your common place book,
consider obsidian, there's a bit of
a learning curve. But then again, if you master the square bracket technique, it should be pretty
intuitive for you to use. So in summary, we've covered two different ways to tackle
your commonplace book. One is for ordinary purposes, and another one is for more
heavy duty ideas association. First one, use a system and take notes with
a flow method. Basically, a big idea, supporting ideas, supporting
idea, supporting ideas. But if you really do care about, the specific words
that you're citing or specific sentences
that you're citing, consider the format of theme,
quotation and commentary. And you can organize these
notes that you take either in an obsidian or a notion
or the remarkable app. There are so many other
alternatives out there. But the trick here is to get into the habit of
noting things down. So that's all I want to
cover in this lesson. And in the next lesson, we are going to
talk about one of the most important
linchpins or one of the most important mindsets
when it comes down to associating different
ideas together, which is the idea
of contemplation. And the idea of mind
wandering or how to revive a state of mind
wandering to allow you to conjure up better ideas. And I'll see you in
the next lesson.
5. Let Your Mind Wander: There's a very
important idea that we simply have to address for this whole ideas
association business to really make a lot of sense. And that right there is going to be the importance of
mind wandering or the importance of putting
yourself into a state of inactivity for ideas to really associate
with one another. And I know these
windows are pretty. And I know these windows, you can probably capture these windows during your commute to work or when you're just out there for a walk
after your meal, and sadly, these windows are
getting increasingly rare. So this lesson right here
is going to be more of a philosophical dive into the idea of inactivity
and contemplation. In fact, I want to start with a little story of
my time in Paris. So about a year ago, I went to Paris, and I went on this two week, really short trip,
and I saw everything, and I sort of, like, try to immerse myself into the culture. And one of the things
that really surprised me there is that the
cafes in Paris, during the day door cafes. But after a while, as you get to around 9:00 P.M. Or 10:00 P.M. The cafe actually
turns into a bar. It turns into a wine bar, but they still serve coffee. Maybe it turns
into a restaurant. The point here is
there are a lot of these lingering spaces
in Paris in the shape of cafes or in the shape of Bistros or in the shape of pubs
for people to have a beer. And compared to some of the
pubs out here in Malvern, Australia, these lingering
spaces in Paris, be it a cafe or bistro or a pub they're relatively
more quiet to sit in. There's a lot less
noise going on. And there's a huge
terrace culture in France where
people sit outside, they have a cigarette, or they have a coffee
or they have a wine, and they simply chat with
no intent or no purposes. Whereas here in Anglosphere, I think most cafes close at
around 5:00 P.M. To 6:00 P.M. But for cultures that really
wander at slower pace of thinking or directionless
mind wandering, they will have
infrastructures like a late night cafe for you to sit there and just
think about life. According to the philosopher, BianilHun in his book,
Vita Contemplativa. These little moments when you don't have anything
particularly pressing to do, where you're just
mind wandering, and if you just allow your mind to pursue whatever end
it wants to pursue. These moments to an are
ceremonies of inactivity. And the notion of
productivity and creativity. They're so intimately
associated, at least in the
anglosphere here, that sometimes you can't even
have one without the other. Somehow, to be creative is to construct a
product to sell. To be creative is to master
a system of production. So that creates the problem of you wanting to
create something, just because you
want to create it, not because you feel inspired, not because this is some really good idea
that you want to pursue, but simply because you
want to get a product out. And that creates a sort of repetitive predictable
cycle of ideas. And if we keep producing this long road of producing
and producing and producing without
really focusing on this important
aspect of creativity, which is contemplation, we're
simply going to burn out. We're going to run out of ideas. We're going to lose touch with the original reason for doing this thing in
the first place. And in this case, if we're so
obsessed, with production. If we're so obsessed with making every idea
into a product. So that necessarily means that when we're going
through our lives, we're kind of
having our blinders on because our only goal is to produce an idea instead of letting the whole
world come to us. Instead of deliberately opening
yourself up to the world, you're so busy picking out different ingredients from
the world for your own end. And here's a really beautiful image to illustrate my point, which came from the
German philosopher, Walter Benjamin who wrote extensively on the
figure of the flan. The flan as the
figure is someone who wanders through
the streets or wanders through the arcades or different shops with no
specific purpose wearing tent. And this really special state
allows the flaneur to see the magnetism of
the street corner of the distance
square in the fog. Of the back of a woman
walking before him. Therefore, the minute
that we let go of this obsessive desire to turn everything we see
into content or into ideas that we can use
or into pieces of writing. Instead, allow everything to associate in a roundabout
and unpredictable way. On one hand, it's
really scary because you never know if an
idea is going to land. But on the other
hand, that's probably one of the best ideas
I ever have is through this kind of goalless
contemplation to allow the ideas
to come to you. In other words, instead
of exploiting reality for content or exploiting everything around you for your ideas, allow the most important
things to come to you through a very deliberate observation
of your surroundings. And I'm aware that
these windows of contemplation are
getting smaller and smaller by the day because we
are in a sense overworked. We're all very busy, and it's really hard to
find these gaps in our schedules to contemplate to watch the world around us. But sometimes, even
just for me personally, I do have a lot
going on in my life. I do have a lot of
university work on top of producing everything
for Skillshare and on top of my
YouTube channel. But I do try to seize just 30 minutes on a bus
ride or a train ride or just those 15 minutes
when I'm riding the tram to university to observe
everything around me, to allow everything
to come to me and allow ideas to bounce
arounding my head. Without needing something
to come from it. And inevitably, with
the ideas that I've captured and with a bit of patience and with
a bit of faith, something will come up. A brilliant idea will come up, and it will turn into
an article or you tube script or something that I
can present to you guys. So in summary, do not disregard the power of a gold less
kind of mind wandering and try to find gaps
in your schedule to accommodate for this kind of
brain wander or brainstorm. That's all I have
for this lesson, and I will see you
in the next one.
6. Final Thoughts: Hello, and welcome to the concluding lesson
for this class. And yes, we have reached a
very tail end of this class, and I hope you have learned
something from these lessons, and I hope you have harvested some insights to take
away with you when you develop your own ideas capturing system
and when you try to articulate these ideas into something more tangible
or more polished, like an article
or a video script or something that you
can show someone. And I guess during the
last segment here, I just want to give
you a little push. In the right
direction, which is to encourage you to come up with your own little
research project. And I would love to
see some of your ideas capturing systems in the
project tap down below. And I would love to see you produce a piece of short writing about the thing that you've been researching using your
ideas capturing system. Because more often than
not, your inability to articulate an insight
or an idea or to come up with creative new
ways to explain something to someone is usually due to
a lack of preparation. And a lack of an efficient
ideas capturing system. We all know that we
can have thousands of creative ideas floating
around in our heads. But if we have an
insufficient means to capture these ideas and
to formalize these ideas, we'll end up with
basically nothing. We'll end up tongue
tied, riders blocked, and we're just
going to end up not having a good time when we sit down to communicate
something exciting. So I want to place the
agency in your hands. I want to give you a little push in the right direction and to encourage you over the course
of the next week or two, research something that
you've always wanted to take a look at using this
ideas capturing system as your backbone and to articulate
that research project or to summarize that
research project in the project tap down below. And hopefully, through the
stages of the capturing stage, the articulation stage,
and the connection stage. You're going to end up
with something really interesting and really
unique to your own voice. And in the end here,
I really hope that this class has inspired in you this desire to create a
system that you can trust, a system that you can
capture ideas with, and a system that's
ultimately going to be the source of
your creativity, a system that you
can use to never run out of new and original
ideas ever again. And a system that
you can use when you're diving into uncertain
grounds of research, while always holding on to
the belief in yourself and your own ideas and the
confidence in articulating. Nevertheless, thank you so much for joining me in this class. And I hope that
you've thoroughly enjoyed each and
every one lessons. And this is Robin Walden, and I will see you
in the next one. Take care. And goodbye.
Robin Waldun, Writer/YouTuber
