Hey Leo here for actualized.org and in this episode I'm going to be talking about how to keep

the ultimate journal your commonplace book. Stick with me throughout this whole episode because towards the end I'm going to show you a live demo of my ultimate journal, my commonplace book and I'm going to show you all the categories that I set up and how I use it to really

supercharge my creativity. But before we can get there we need to talk about what is a commonplace book and why it's so important.

This is one of those things that's so practical that it will completely change your life as it snowballs over the years, over the years, over the years, and I want to show you the effect that it had in my own life.

So what is a commonplace book?

A commonplace book is a repository of all your knowledge.

Every idea that you run across that strikes you as important or significant or inspiring,

you write it down and you organize it and you put it all together into a sort of personal Wikipedia.

This is like a scrapbook. into a sort of personal Wikipedia.

This is like a scrapbook that contains notes, clippings, lists of goals,

two-do lists, random ideas that you have for projects and business ideas and

any kind of hobbies that you have, any lessons that you learn from books or from listening to videos listening to

me or any insights that you personally have on your psychedelic trips or whatever sources

you're getting your insights from, you're writing all those down, you have

lists of quotes, drawings, you can have diaries in there where you write down your intimate thoughts, exercises that you do

personal development exercises, consciousness work sort of exercises or whatever.

You can have schematics, pictures, tables, lists of resources, links to stuff that you

find on the internet like articles that are very important that you've read.

You can have screenshots and screen clippings of important stuff

that you've seen and it can just go on and on and on you can have videos in there

you can even have audio in there all of this put together into a scrapbook sort of thing.

Now this word commonplace book, it's a bit of a weird word. Why do I use this book? Why don't I just call it a journal?

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