How I Journal and Take Notes | Brainstorming + Focusing + Reducing Anxiety | Tim Ferriss
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About Tim Ferriss:
Tim Ferriss is one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and an early-stage tech investor/advisor in Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ other companies. He is also the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef, Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors. The Observer and other media have named him “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of his podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, which has exceeded 400 million downloads and been selected for “Best of iTunes” three years running.
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Tip for the 5 minute journal. Instead of answering the question "what would make today great?" change it to "what can I do to make today great?" The former question implies that you are expecting something to happen, and passively waiting for something great to happen during your day. Take action with the latter question.
Awesome tip! Thanks :)
I'd love to make my own version of the journal because I'd also change a few things but I have no idea how to make a custom journal lol.
@@waltz9230 I just bought a blank journal and I the prompts in each day (I didn't want to commit the $$ for the journal without knowing if I would benefit from the practice or even commit to it. If I like it when I finish, I'd like to buy the journal to support the creator). The inspirational quotes are great, and you can find some to add in if you want, but they're not really necessary. Just write in your prompts, fill in your answers, and go.
@@aboucher0319 @Duke Nukem - For many years I bought inexpensive journals - sometimes lined, sometimes blank (for doodling/drawing as well as writing) - and covered them in beautiful paper with Date and Theme on the cover. I had boxes of them when I moved countries - many filled with Morning Pages; quotes from books I was reading and self-exploration and therapy. Then I did something DRAMATIC - I had a JOURNAL BURNING PURGE which I wrote about on my blog - soon to be an article on Medium. The point is - blank cheaper journals are just as brilliant. Though true confession - in recent years I've fallen in love with good quality Bullet Journals.
Love this idea
great one! thanks for sharing!
My reasoning for journaling was listening to Kobe Bryant talk about how he would rewatch his games was literally right after his game. I started a new career, and in learning my new craft I thought, “ok I can’t record myself or vlog at work, but I can write everything down that happens at work”
“The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.”
--Paulo Coelho
Books In Review 🤯
Sounds great. Real life? Not sooo much. People are far too complex. They compartmentalize, apply selective memory, discredit you; anything to allow them to ignore your example and not have to consider your opinion. That's been my experience.
The world is changed by good and evil alike. By opinions, lies, propaganda, i.e. information wars. The world 'progresses' by Truth alone. If one's example does not align with their opinion then they are a hypocrite. Resolving hypocrisy in one's life will dissolve the ego.
This is actually a quote by Paulo Coelho
@@sulakshanalamubol127 thanks
Paulo Coelho is a pride for Brazil 🙌 Even, I really wasn't expecting his mention in US page
Take-Aways:
1) Catch-all note taking, writing thoughts downs with a cataloguing/indexing system at the front of the journal; brain-storming, insight, review, answers, problem solving
2) Morning Pages: a way of getting whatever anxious thought is in your head out of it and onto paper. Reducing anxiety and neuroses.
3) The Five-Minute Journal: three AM prompts for the morning and two PM prompts for the evening for reflection. Focus and appreciation.
Thanks, Tim.
Danny Tétreault.
Everyone is taking good notes here - so Tim you're onto something. QUICK TIP/CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM: Try writing your morning pages in lyrical prose or rhyme, you'd be surprised at how it unlocks your your ability to navigate your subconscious undercurrents in a higher dimensional flow of language. Essentially, push the limits of morning pages to it's ultimate goal of helping you break through your linguistic and spiritual boundaries, culminating in the totality of your personality surfaced and integrated into your awareness - individuation as Jung would say. 💜
Ohh lmao
@@LamAnopro_ Why are you laughing 🤨
Tim, I was reading your 4 hour work week when I finally had it. I was being abused in a job and I was so unhappy. I quit my job, sold my house, and put all my energy into building myself up. It's been just over a year and I've designed my own journal. I'm working in getting it out to people as a free download right now, but I just started my own youtube channel. It's all inspired by you. I figure whatever i do, my youtube and putting myself out there to people is a great first step. I finally have the confidence. I'm an avid journaler too, I've just translated ot into video. Thank you for the inspiration!!
He really helped me too. I haven't started a youtube channel yet, but maybe I will. Slow and steady is the key.
I quit my job too!!!
@@bobyarnly128 it is, I just started but am slowly chipping away at it - doing it for a whole year, every week a new challenge
@@feliciaeffers4915 good for you! It feels so good to take control ♡
Amazing, good job! Your journey sounds profound! Keep sharing it, documentation is important
This crisis is a gift. People are getting humbled.The first step to peace inner and outer.
If you enjoy journalling and learning new languages, I encourage to take your notes in the language you want to learn. It has helped me a lot with studying french.
Thanks Tim for the great content you provide to us !
Tres bien! :)
That is fantastic advice, unlocked a new realm. Спасибо большое, y buenas tardes:)
Good advice. Thanks!
Hi, could you share where you have been learning french from? I have been practicing on Duolingo since 115 days and wondering if its the right resource to use.
@@wojciechptasinski2541 Thank you friend! These resources seem really helpful!
Who wouldn't want to "distill the absolute best"? what a gem of a man
I thought I was the only person who kept different notebooks for different topics. It seems I'd be adding two more. Thanks for sharing these tips
Last year, I stopped using ALL media that involves photo uploading and "documenting" my day....
I took that 'extra' time and returned to practicing the piano daily. I also read Moby Dick, started gardening, recorded an original blues piece, and improved my skills at trimming my horse's hooves.
.....boy oh boy how I don't miss Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram.
OMG morning pages... literally saved my life! I was so dumb I thought the ‘Artist way’ (dragon on the front) was going to help me draw.... next day opening the book ... I was like, WHAT!!!
Totally got me out of my head... so grateful 🙏!
Tim explained "volunteer at a retirement home" but not "cut off my feet" lol
He had explained it in one of his podcasts if I recall correctly. Tim explained the absurd ideas would increase the chances for the actionable steps or ideas to stand out for the second and third pass.
Still awaiting the video where he has no feet
Types of note-taking:
1. Brainstorm / Insight Notebook - for interesting goals and ideas
2. Morning Pages - aka brain vomit; for reducing anxiety and worries
3. 5-minute Journal - for focus, appreciation, and keeping anything simple
Key to note-taking: multiple passes and constantly asking what did I think was important or cool thru different times, so you’re not just spewing onto the page and then forgetting it
Example:
1st pass: when you first took notes
2nd pass: maybe a week or a month after the note was taken; underscore ideas you find interesting at this time
3rd pass: maybe a quarter after; encircle ideas you find interesting at this time
Action item for me: add this on my brainstorm / insight notebook 👍
Thanks
Thanks, I was looking for a summary comment
Amazing abstract.
To me the morning brain vomit would *induce* anxiety, not relieve it!
Much better to start the day on a positive note!
Key is multiple passes.
10:44 state, story, strategy 👍
I started doing 5-minute journal at the beginning of the year. Became quite obsessed with journaling, I'd say its one of the best habits a man can have. Life changing, always being aware of your position in life, where you've been, where you're going. And thanks for the Tools of titans it was a blast reading it. :)
Yes! 110% agree with you on journaling as the best habit one uses to elevate their life.
Yes, this 5 min journal is one of the tools that we can use daily to balance negativity and chaos. This helps us to look for the things we are thankful for even in the worst of times.
And it's free and quick to do.
Good work, definitely something that can help to focus oneself
I was going to buy your book but fail
I think the two takeaways from Tim Ferriss are this: introduce habits, discover (beneficial) things that you want to do compulsively
Morning pages saved my life
Thank You, I'm 26 years old and I've been into journaling since my teenage life - not even sure how to do it properly until today! I'm very grateful to your video as powerful tool to quality life.
Morning pages are the best , I did for 3 years it even help me with my depression and my anxiety that thanks god I don’t have it anymore. Everybody should read the artist way
Glad it helped you out
Siel8387 thank you 🥰
hanane boulisfane I would love helping you out, but I’m not a native English speaker , my mother tongue is Spanish
Love Morning Pages, they constantly help me realize the decisions I need to make!
Over night successes are rarely over night successes! I Love it!!
I've kept journals / to do list / sketch book / doodles / whatever since I was a kid. I have a library of them that I probably would never show to anybody but cherish and will never get rid of. It's interesting to be able to go back and see what my mind was doing at certain times of life, and how much the initial impressions of events have changed in my memory (shockingly sometimes). So happy to see someone else doing the exact same thing. You're brave to share yours, so thank you! Keep up the inspiring work :D
Tim Ferris first phrase in Tools of Titans
"I'm a compulsive note taker"
Great book btw
Yeah I want to buy his book but fail
@@masternobody1896 how could you fail on buying an inexpensive book?
@@antediluvianclockwork9769 It's lockdown dude
@@udaykhati1162 buy an ebook, download one or buy a book online haha
@@antediluvianclockwork9769 idk if free pdf is available online? But ordering online isn't an option in some countries. Only essential items are being delivered
5 minute journal is the best.
My monkey mind needed to be reminded of these cool tools today. Morning pages, and journaling in general, truly is a superpower. It gives you clarity and relieves anxiety.
These videos are so relaxed, entertaining', genuine and inspiring. You look so much better without the beanie.
Hypergraphia is great. Our brain needs expression to function to its optimal and writing is a great way of expressing.
I think hypergraphia is an actual clinical disorder though. Not just the desire to write a lot.
I think I may have it too, but my channel is my keyboard...
@@kochevar99 I'm the opposite. I never take notes, even during school. I keep everything in my head and I'm very anxious!! I don't know if there's such thing as hypographia
@@kochevar99from wiki : " Hypergraphia is a behavioral condition characterized by the intense desire to write or draw. Forms of hypergraphia can vary in writing style and content. It is a symptom associated with temporal lobe changes in epilepsy, which is the cause of the Geschwind syndrome, a mental disorder."
I finish every night with two questions.
Things I'm grateful for today 1.2.3. Celebration time.
Things I need to take more care 1.2.3. Help me to get ready for tomorrow.
Tim Ferris is the OG. Great stuff.
Love you Tim Ferris
Found this brilliant guy yesterday and I can't get enough
Hey Tim, great video! Just something i've noticed: You seem a lot more relaxed, at ease and generally happier these days. I've also noticed that you're showing a lot more vulnerability in your videos and podcasts which I love, maybe this is one of the factors in your change of energy.
Love your videos and this one in particular will help a lot because my headspace often feels overwhelmed with thoughts, ideas and general distractions. Thanks
I have a bullet journal. Has an index, future log, grid format and 3 page markers. I use it for a habit tracker and to reference throughout the week, month and year. Highly effective for me.
I feel like Tim is the friend we all needed, or I personally needed, during our coming of age years.... and through young adulthood. But he was always to busy to have time to visit, hangout or chill with us. I never had friends that had their act or life together on a sliver of Tim's level.
Don't forget, my friend. We see only a sliver of Tim's life.
Not saying he is trying to be deceptive.
However, it's easy to see Tim's highlight reel and feel like he has all of his life together. You might be closer to it than you realise!
I think this is the most authentic note-taking/ writing system yet simple I've seen.
Do you even know what you just said?
Black Opal do you know?
LOVE YOU TIM, reading the 4 hour workweek 10+ years ago changed my life forever, and now I get to help other people build their dream lives, you are an absolute legend keep inspiring a generation 💪🤑🔥
Love that
@@jordank2935 thanks man!
Thank you Tim, have read your 4 hour book, this backs up in a visual way. My life is changing since I started reading your books.
thank you for this, it really helps to hear you talking about these practices, I will definitely try morning pages feels like something that could help me
This video along with all of your recent content has been excellent. Thank you for sharing, and I hope we continue to see these updates!
Loved the indexing of the notebook idea 👍. I’m going to do that in mine too as I have moved more to paper notes recently.
Tim is someone I've learned alot of value from and has helped me develop new healthy habits. Great mentor
Justin Tackett Indeed! Tim is a valuable person as a “virtual” mentor of sorts.. a great teacher to us all!
Thank you for giving me a word for my chronic writing!
I know it was a random thought but the fact that you even had an idea to just give your money away as a form of feeling less anxious says a lot about you. Many can’t even remotely get themeselves to think like that ❤️
Thanks Tim! I appreciate you teaching us on how to be a more efficient note taker. I didn’t realize I have already been doing the 5-minute journal technique. But today I’m trying the Morning pages technique you discussed as well as the brainstorming efficiently note taking. I really appreciate your teachings and hope you have a prosperous 2021
LOVE this! Started with the current book I'm reading and what a HUGE difference of how I read! Thanks Tim! (and welcome to Austin, so glad you're here!)
Thank you, Tim for this video. You have inspired me to start writing and not be afraid to express my thoughts and ideas down on paper🙏
I love note taking as well
Tim, I really enjoy the way you process and digest information. Thanks for sharing with us
I'm really liking these short, snippet videos, I hope you keep it up :)
Thanks Tim for sharing your skill sets for writing Journals for self growth and learnings.
As a techie that values having a backup and does everything digitally, this has inspired me to pick up a notebook again, especially at a time when I'm spending 90% of my day looking at a screen.
Thanks
Absolutely loved this. Watched it a couple time through and kept rewinding to be sure it was clear 😁🙏🏼
Creating an index at the beginning and page numbers in the top right are great tips - thanks!
This makes me feel much less worried about my journaling. In 18 years of having multiple journals etc, often times I felt it was so detailed and structured, as it was a kind of compulsive disorder.
This looks similar to the practices I developed for myself. Thanks
Thanks for this! I have the same affliction, when it comes to note taking. Tips and hints are always welcome.
Tim, you are a legend. Thanks for all the incredible work you do - I am so grateful for all the lessons you have taught me and the practical tools I now have at my disposal as a direct result of your teachings
Your are my inspiration ,Tim. Thank you. Love You!
Tim, this is the old school Tim Ferris we all love. Please do more videos on topics like this.
Tim Ferriss is a beauty. Keep up the good work homie
Didn't expect to see you here lol
Fawkk
Spiritual Windshield Wiper! That's #1 take-away for me! Love it!
HI Tim, love your content, your an oasis of calm in these crazy times, keep posting man
I am grateful for you Tim thanks for your teachings 🤙🙌
Hey man.. Ive read the 4 hour work week and currently reading Tribe of Mentors daily.. I am also a long time fan of your podcast. And these new type of videos which you're making are really good and helpful. Would love more of such content
Thanks for saying this Tim. I was only diagnosed with adhd at 45, last year, and a cascade of great information and connections has since started. In the funny and cool way that things can go, I caught a yt vid of you discussing this and then last week your discussion with Gabor Mate. Both gave me bloody tingles of relief/release/whatever. I am also a serious jotter down of notes and I’ve begun the process of going through old docs and putting them into my Evernote as part of collecting decades of my thoughts... full on! When I commenced drug treatment last year I began doing Sunday reviews of the week. They’ve now expanded to bigger reviews and a bunch of docs related to how to construct a good year... which would naturally vary, but I am asking myself and seeking other people’s ideas on what elements, what processes and what overall cycle I could aim for. Intense work phases? Renewal rituals? 4 terms? Celebrations and serious respectful things? An annual physical build up to a big adventure and then a recovery? Any way, thanks for sharing your thoughts in this way Tim.
Nothing wrong with simplicity. Thanks for sharing.
This might be the most helpful video I've seen in years.
Thank you.
Great examples, helpful explanations, especially the comment about not using each one every day (like it's an obligation). I found that to be freeing in my own experience, to skip a day (or days) if life gets demanding, but eventually coming back to it always seems to be more rewarding and fulfilling than gutting it out and forcing myself to check the box for consistency. Some tools are meant to be accessed when needed, and that's when they have the biggest impact.
As always: this was superb stuff! Love to hear you talk about stuff like this - thanks!
Tim, you sir are a great man!
Thank you for sharing your notes Tim! So interesting!
Ben Angel has a good 90 day journal. Unstoppable. Also,Tim,thank you for basically creating my book reading list,derived from your books.
Thank you, this was super helpful. Will be watching this video again and sharing your tips with my community
Thank you Tim!
I tend to journal in the evening as a way of reviewing the day. Probably more valuable is writing a target or goals for the day and then reviewing afterwards
I always have new insights when I go for old stuff. I've found a text from May 2018!! Almost two years after. Great text, very powerful. Words made sense now. :)
"No hurry, no pause" is actually a well known popular saying here in Spain - and I think that it is also said in many places in South America: sin prisa pero sin pausa :)
shhhh
The famous “slowly but surely”
Ancora y delfín.... Se ahí vienen esas frases :)
I've hear it as: "Slow is smooth and smooth is faster than fast". In terms of going fast, you'll make mistakes that need to be corrected or will otherwise further lead you off course.
Great stuff Tim. More videos like this dude, your routines, life tips, learn how to learn etc...
I love to hear him talk. I use to listen hours and hours of his podcasts. He's so thorough and has great tone and even wonderful ASMR quirks and gestures that I find so engaging
I CAN'T EVEN EXPRESS how HELPFUL and INSIGHTFUL these strategies be!!! THANK YOUUUU TIM FERRISS!!!!
Thanks Tim. I switched to notes on iPad because of handwriting recognition. Game changer for referencing notes. Have you ever considered going this route and why?
Means a lot that videos like this exist...thank you so much Tim!
Wow. The index idea is awesome. I’ll definitely use it.
I already create my own index on books, adding pages or stories I’d like to come back that are not specified on the main index.
using it for personal notebooks will be super useful
Thx Tim, reading “the 4-hour workweek” changed my life.
What is the 4 hour workweek about?
@@deepthought422 hacking life and work.
THX for the inspring content Tim Ferriss.
Short, but so useful advice. Nice.
Thanks for sharing.
Tim, in all the things you're grateful for, remember to also be grateful for the Consciousness in which they all appear. Without that basic, underlying awareness that we ARE, we would literally be unable to perceive or enjoy anything else. To me, that is God in us and it is important to pay attention to and value that Principle of simple, yet fundamentally essential, cognition or knowing. From this awareness of our own Consciousness arises peace, love, and the deepest gratitude for life. We often pay attention to all that is written on a page, yet we forget to be grateful for the page itself that makes what is written on it possible. Peace.
Love this @tim ferriss! Very useful and keep such videos coming.
I have never heard anyone talk about this before. Thank you so much. I appreciate your insight. I have spent much time trying to organize my notes. I have found the horizontal filing system can only be confusing. I write so many notes in order to learn that I can't seem to keep up the filing.
thanks a lot for sharing!
I first saw this video last year, remembered it this month, searched for it and re-watched and started practicing the five minutes journal. Men that stuff is so good.
Nothing I haven't already heard of, but some things I don't use that I definetly will be in the future. My BulletJournal works very good for me, but reviewing is still something new, also I already had a lot of benefits from it.
Thanks a lot!
Hi Tim, Great tips - thank you for posting this. I'd love to see a follow up on how you approach note taking for something you are reading or learning. I imagine you have a specific approach during and after for storage/review. Thanks again!
His voice & look are charismatic.
thanks for your video, always help improve ourself
Loved it all Tim! One recommendation for next time - draft up a visual notebook example. You explained in great detail but would still love to see a visual example.
Tim....this. is. awesome!! As a major note-taker myself and a fan of yours for a while, this was great.
Thanks man, one of the best advices I ever got!
Thanks Tim! I really like Morning Pages. New stuff. Will try.
This is brilliant way to archive goals.
Thank you Tim! When I feel down, or need a dose of inspiration, I watch your videos or read your books. I also started writing 5-min journal in 2017 after I watched your youtube video sharing about it. That year is one of the darkest moments of my life, and this 5-min journal helped me to look for small things or small reasons that I was thankful for (despite all the chaos and fears and anxiety I was facing during those times).
Thank you, thank you, thank you Tim.
You've been a blessing to many people's lives. Bless you more Tim!
Awesome stuff Tim! Love this new format you're doing. Also, the place you record this on looks awesome!
Great video! Thank you for sharing the tips on reflecting on journals 😉