The intellectual’s secret weapon 💌. Your brain needs this.

What if reading isn’t enough? I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to become an intellectual without falling into pseudo-intellectualism. Not just consuming books, collecting quotes, or knowing the right authors, but actually learning to think. In this video, I’m taking you through my little system of Thoughtbooks, Commonplace Books and my Book of Possibilities, and why I think keeping a physical record of what we read, think and encounter can change the way we engage with the world. We only get one life, and our own experience is incredibly small. Reading gives us access to other people’s minds, mistakes, cultures, questions and ways of seeing. But reading alone isn’t enough. We have to digest what we encounter and make some of it our own. So this is partly a notebook tour, partly a conversation about reading and intellectual development, and partly me trying to figure out what it means to live a thoughtful life. For the aspiring intellectuals, the chronic overthinkers, the people who underline entire paragraphs, and anyone trying to become a little more intentional about the person they’re becoming. Read widely. Think slowly. Keep evidence. #commonplacebook #intelligence #intellectualconversations #philosophy #priscylight #journaling #diary #howtojournal #viralvideos