How Ryan Holiday Uses Notecards to Write Best-Sellers

Ryan Holiday is a prolific writer and podcaster. He has several best-selling books including "Ego is the Enemy" and "Conspiracy". What's interesting? He uses the humble notecard to outline and even write every single book and article.

Show Notes

My name is Matt Ragland and in each episode I share a short lesson about how to be more focused and productive. I draw these lessons from personal experience, work with clients, modern psychology and real-world application.

• Ryan Holiday's Notecard System
• Never Start from Scratch Again
• Origins of "Smart" Note-Taking & Zettelkasten
• How Note-Taking Improves Creativity
• Developing Ideas Sparks 
• Comparing Note-Taking Apps
• How I Use Notes in Content Creation
• Note-Taking from Capture to Communication
• Watch my YouTube videos on QUICK Notes

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What is Connect the Dots with Matt Ragland?

Connect the Dots is a show about how different topics converge to form a new idea. We start from the perspective of productivity or creativity and how they intersect.

But one of the things that has proven most fascinating to me over the years is how many other topics and disciplines impact creative and productive work. Like how much is productivity impacted by the improvement of physical health? How does creativity increase when you learn from new sources of inspiration? It's these questions that form the heart of Connect the Dots.