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155: Where Good Ideas Come From by Stephen Johnson

Bookworm

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The Concept of the Commonplace

The commonplace book is the idea of writing down interesting quotes and phrases. The most recent thing that we've read that has spoken to this is probably building a second brain by uh, tiago forte But there was a phrase that they use here which made the whole idea of the commonplace book click a little bit better for me And it's with this definition of common placing. I'm gonna start using that What you're doing? Oh, I'm common placing but common placing is writing down interesting quote and phrases.

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