You should start a commonplace book today - YouTube
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Stop doomscrolling, read more books, and remember what you read. Advice I wish I had years ago on how, and why, to keep a commonplace book or journal. Some of the world's greatest thinkers, writers, and philosophers attribute the development of their ideas to keeping something called a commonplace book. So, for years I would read books that I really enjoyed, and then afterwards I would realize that I just didn't really remember all that much from what I'd read. This is obviously an embarrassing waste of time. When I learned about the value of keeping a commonplace book, suddenly I noticed…
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