Yesterday, I was at Paulo Coelho’s blog, reading excerpts from an interview he did with Tim Ferris, and a few points stuck out to me. One of the more notable things about the interview was Coelho’s stance on notetaking. He said:
I use notes to take them out of my head. I will never use them the next day—they will be useless … Forget notetaking. What is important remains, what is not important goes away.
At first I thought, Whatever, to each his own. But then I realized that I, too, end up disregarding whatever notes I’d written for a story or script because, yes, they ultimately are useless.
