Do Interesting: Notice. Collect. Share. (Do Books Book 36)

People who just talk about themselves tend to be boring. People who let slip something about themselves while talking about something that excites them are invariably fascinating.

Pick something you love and go deep.* Keep lists.

interesting ideas normally come from the slow accumulation of related thoughts, questions and ponderings.

Another way to ‘go at’ an interest is to come at it from different angles. Sneak up on it. See what someone else has to say.

Collect a visual note every day this week. Something without an explicit logical meaning, it just seems like you should shoot it.

You can make your work — and the world — more interesting by practising three things: — Noticing — if you pay more attention to the world, it starts to look more interesting — Collecting — if you bang together the things you’ve noticed, they get more interesting again — Sharing — if you get good at sharing all that stuff with people, it gets even b

You have a capacious hold-all, full of thoughts, notions, references, asides and treats.

Next time you’re writing a presentation, try something — paste random images onto every slide, whatever’s on your desktop or on your phone. Just grab stuff. Then make the presentation work with those images. I bet it’ll get more interesting.

the best, most interesting ideas and possibilities emerge from conversation and exchange. From planting seeds in other people’s soil.