X:: Note-making sharpens your thinking tags::#pkm

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Note-making creates unexpected optionality §

A second-order effect that results from “linking your thinking” is how much “Optionality” it offers.

Simply put, optionality is not feeling stuck.

It enhances the value you have at your fingertips. It allows you to work from a place of abundance, as opposed to a place of scarcity. And it aids in your ability to pivot your career at the drop of a hat (or the onset of a pandemic!).

Personally, I’ve leaned on experiences from coaching college football and working as civil engineer to entrepreneurship and filmmaking. I’ve parlayed hard-earned patterns in one field of thought—systematizing and maintaining a small business—into a completely different one—like editing in television.

A large part of this ability stems from not just having quality experiences in my life, but in being able to re-apply fundamental aspects of those past experiences to new situations.

For a collection of related odes, check out the Benefits of linked thinking.

Also related is how Most PKM educators skip note-making to focus on external rewards. It’s not a horrible thing; it’s kinda unfortunate, but it’s just the reality.