How To Keep Generating Ideas Even Though You Are Super Busy
4 Steps.
Step 1: Be very specific with what you want to learn. Write it down.
- Good: I want to learn how NFT really works and how I can create one
- Bad: I want to learn about NFT
You can have more than one topic. The key is to make it more specific.
Step 2: Have a list of learning sources you can open on a regular basis.
For me what works: is Twitter. I intentionally mostly follow different topics that I want to learn there.
When I found something interesting I’ll “like” it, so I can revisit it later.
Check out some of the tweets that I like here.
Step 3: Record what you learn somewhere. Could be your physical notes/ Evernote/ apple note/ etc.
This is important cuz you might not be able to digest everything directly. Keep it somewhere that is easy to be found.
Step 4: Practice Forced Connection. Learn to connect more than 1 thing that might seem unrelatable. Example:
- Banana + Lamp = …
- Water + Chopstick = …
- Rice + Soap = …
In real practice ask yourself: “How can I implement what I learned just now into my project/ work?”
These are personal learning notes from the books and articles I read, the videos I watched, podcasts I listened to, or people I talked to.
