up:: [[PKM MOC]] Links:: [[Your Zettelkasten can serve as a reflection of what you should create]] Tags:: #🌲 Humans are notoriously good at forgetting what it felt like before they remembered something. Writing things down in your [[PKM MOC|PKM system]] serves as a physical manifestation of what we believed and thought before change. If you're mind is cluttered your PKM system will be cluttered. In this way **notetaking is a trojan horse to self awareness.** > “Never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things — childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves — that go on slipping, like sand, through our fingers.” - Salman Rushdie Writing allows us to capture the transformations we experienced in [[Liminal Spaces|liminal spaces]] where doubt, discomfort, unfamiliarity, anxiety, but at the same time growth, change, and discovery occur. This in turn can give us insight into how we can better practice [[Lifestyle Design MOC|lifestyle design]]. In addition to capturing our feelings and thoughts on things, we can also see consistent research interests over time. Think of yourself as swimming in a sea of information. If you don't come in with the correct mindset to your PKM system, maybe you over collect and over organize, you are simply adding more water to that sea. You're making it harder to swim. However, if you come in with the right mindsets, than you are building a boat to sail you in a direction you want to be going in.