Tips for input to significantly improve the quality of your ideas

Come on, ideas!

Come, rain down on me!

...

...if only it were that easy to shout,

and have them just rain down on you.

Ideas are the lifeblood of note, aren't they?

After all, they are the source of your articles.

By turning daily realizations and discoveries into ideas,

we are able to write as well.

It truly is a daily search for ideas.

If these ideas,

could just pop up, one after another,

that would be wonderful.

To mass-produce these ideas,

you need a corresponding amount of input.

Writing is output.

Before output, there must be input.

Through vast amounts of input,

you will encounter ideas that make you think,

"I want to write about this!"

In that case, everyone,

wouldn't it be better to

improve the quality of your input?

If you can achieve high-quality input,

you can also achieve high-quality output.

In that case

It's a strategy to boost the quality of the information you receive on a daily basis.

That is the strategy.

If you can extract five or even eight pieces of information

from a single source,

you could end up writing several articles.

Once that's decided, it's time for input.

The main question is, how do you go about inputting?

That is today's theme.

⭕️ The quality of input is proportional to the 'grit'.

So, here is the conclusion.

The more troublesome something is, the higher the quality of the information.

I'd like you to imagine this for a moment.

These days

you can get information just by tapping your smartphone.

Tap an app or a browser.

You can access all kinds of information.

Which means, you see,

it becomes information that everyone already knows.

You could just write down

the information you've gathered as is,

but then it just ends up being

nothing more than a copy-paste of existing information.

To improve the quality of your output,

you have to polish the quality of your information.

That method is,

"doing things that are a hassle."

Why are your articles read?

Why do people want to read that person's articles?

It is because they contain information

that is unique to that person.

I want you to think about the articles

of your favorite note creators.

Isn't there a lot of

their unique perspective included?

There must be people who go to read

because they look forward to that.

"Well now, I wonder

what kind of things are written today?"

The reason you feel that way is

because you are interested in the creator's "thoughts".

Thoughts that are uniquely yours

cannot be born from "copy-pasting".

From the information available in the world,

"what" do you think,

and "how" do you share it?

You must think about this

and then output it.

This is a hassle, you know.

After all, you have to think.

Thinking from scratch

takes energy, doesn't it?

Facing your own past and values,

That is when your first opinion is born.

Then, you write it down,

and polish the format.

Because of this tediousness,

the quality of your output also improves.

Being one-of-a-kind

is something born from stepping into

the 'tediousness' that no one else will do.

Surprisingly, being 'down-to-earth' is necessary.

It has no theory, nothing,

it's a guts-based idea, right?

But in reality, that is how it is.

⭕️ Take one more step and think deeper

To improve the quality of your input,

it is also a good idea to change how you "take in" information.

So, there is something I would like you to try.

The keyword is "one more step."

It is easy to see all kinds of information

and just think, "Hmm, okay."

But what if you take one more step?

The information that caught your eye,

must have a reason why it caught your eye.

That information might be:

There must be all sorts of reasons.

Try accessing your own thoughts.

Even just exploring why something caught your attention

will naturally sharpen the quality of your input.

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