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The Thinking Book
A Place To Let Your Ideas Breathe
In my scouting for interesting videos on YouTube, I found out about The Thinking Book.
In these digital times, being able to think without outsourcing it to a digital tool is fundamental, and this method is something I found valuable, even if my setup for thinking on paper is slightly different since I use self-made notebooks of stapled loose sheets.
The Thinking Book is a method created by Rachelle in theory to give her ideas room to breathe and develop, instead of jumping from a scattered collection of thoughts into action.
Below is the video if you want to delve directly into the source material.
For this book of thought, she uses several interesting templates, which you draw on the first pages of a notebook to use as references.
Template 1 — Reverse Mind Mapping
The first is the Reverse Mind Mapping.
We are all familiar with mind maps. You write the main topic in the center of a landscape page, circle it, and write everything connected to it into different branches.
The reverse mind…
