Keep Going by Austin Kleon – Book Summary & Highlights

This book offers practical and inspiring advice on how to stay creative, focused, and true to yourself in good and bad times. It can help you overcome distractions, doubts, and difficulties, and keep doing your work every day. It also encourages you to find joy and meaning in your creative journey, and to share your gifts with the world.

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How to Take Smart Note

How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens  – Book Summary & Highlights

This book introduces Niklas Luhmann’s Zettelkasten (slip-box) method and shows you how to take smart notes that help you remember, understand, and generate ideas from what you read. You will learn how to use the Zettelkasten (slip-box), a simple and flexible system of note-taking that boosts your creativity and productivity. You will also discover how to write effortlessly by developing topics and ideas from your notes.

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Building a Second Brain

Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte – Book Summary & Highlights

This book teaches you how to create a system of personal knowledge management, or a “Second Brain”, that enables you to recall everything you might want to remember and achieve anything you desire. You will learn how to capture, organize, distill, and express your ideas using digital tools and the CODE method. You will also discover how to shift your mindset from scarcity to abundance, from obligation to service, and from consuming to creating.

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