Summary of How to Take Notes like Kendrick Lamar

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In this video, Kendrick Lamar discusses the benefits of taking notes. He argues that notes allow us to time travel, store precious ideas, and improve our creative output. He recommends that everyone develop a system for taking quick, accurate notes. This can help you be more productive and creative in your writing.

• 00:00:00 In this video, Kendrick Lamar's note-taking system is deconstructed. He notes that taking notes is the closest thing that we have to time travel, and that note taking is the best way to store our precious ideas so that we can level up our creative game and build systems to improve our craft. He also says that taking notes allows us to compound our knowledge over time, and that this is what has enabled him to be a phenomenal artist today.
• 00:05:00 Kendrick Lamar learned to take effective notes by studying great artists. He recommends that everyone develop a system for taking quick, accurate notes so that they can remember ideas and insights more easily. This can help you be more productive and creative in your writing.
• 00:10:00 Taking notes can help you write about experiences that occurred decades ago with the same fidelity as something that happened yesterday. I feel the benefits of note-taking every single day. See, I have an atrocious memory, and rather than being disappointed by that, I'm propelled by the compounding advantages of a notes collection that I've been building ever since I took a life-changing online course called "building a second brain." One of the best things that I learned in Thiago Forte's course is that note-taking will actually change your creative process so you don't have to work in "these things called heavy lifts anymore." With all those notes in one place, you can start recycling ideas and the output of one project can become the seed of another one. By putting in a little bit of extra effort now, you'll avoid having to do that thinking again in the future. Note taking transcends the limits of memory and throws you into a galaxy of perpetual insight. If you took notes while watching this video, you would be 95 ahead of other people.