Ordinary breakthroughs

There are many ordinary moments when I made major breakthroughs in my writing. For example, early into my career, I tried turning my ideas and research directly into articles. Eventually, as I tried moving on towards books, I found my brain just couldn’t handle so much information. I resisted this for a while (mostly because I felt impatient), and eventually came to accept it. I learned about taking notes on index cards through Ryan Holiday’s and Robert Greene’s methods. Not knowing how exactly to do it right, I must’ve written over 100 notecards before I came across the Zettelkasten method of organizing these notes, which really worked for me. In that moment, by deciding to take the notes, I also opened up many new possibilities. I couldn’t tell you which day it was; more likely than not, it was a thought that had been bubbling up for a long time, and I’ve definitely made more than one attempt at it. Every day is ripe with moments like this. The post Ordinary breakthroughs appeared…