Most of us don't hoard knowledge for knowledge sake. We usually do it as a path to improving our condition. Tiago Forte asked his note-taking students on some of the questions they are trying to address when hunting for information.

Knowing to DO

<ul><li>How can I build a good reading habit?</li><li>What can yoga teach me and move me towards?</li><li>How do I improve the functionality of my brain including cognitive processing and memory?</li><li>How can I improve every day by 1%?</li><li>How can I structure my goals so I increase my chances of achieving them?</li><li>What are the classics? What are they trying to teach us? And how is it relevant?</li><li>How can I consistently achieve the goals I set for myself?</li><li>What facets of my life can I automate?</li><li>How can I become friends with people that I want to be like?</li><li>What does systems thinking have to teach us about healing and personal growth?</li></ul>

Self Improvement

<ul><li>What should I invest my money into so it can work harder for me?</li><li>How do I catch up building a nest egg midlife?</li><li>How can we balance investing strategically with spending money on what we love today?</li></ul>

Finances

<ul><li>What can I do to switch off and relax from time to time?</li><li>How can I eat healthy food that is delicious?</li><li>How do I create a body that I am proud of and that serves me well?</li><li>How can I balance my personal life with my professional life while still feeling productive and fulfilled?</li><li>How can I achieve regular deep sleep?</li><li>How can I leverage social media in healthy and productive ways that add value to my personal and professional life?</li><li>What are the optimum behaviors, habits and tools to mitigate my cognitive challenges (ADD)?</li></ul>

Self Care

<ul><li>How can I improve my leadership skills and consistently support, empower, and challenge those around me?</li><li>What processes and people should I put in place in order to replace myself in the current business so I can focus on the next phase of the business before IPO?</li><li>How do we create messages that are unique and persuasive to rural voters in Maine?</li></ul>

Leadership

<ul><li>How am I my own biggest stumbling block?</li><li>How do I overcome my personal bottlenecks to be authentic, vulnerable, and risk failure?</li><li>How do you find your way after losing your faith?</li><li>What does living in integrity with myself look like?</li><li>What does showing gratitude for my life, look like?</li><li>What can I do to accept myself as I am?</li><li>What in my past casts a shadow on my present?</li><li>What are the most simple and universally effective practices to experience and sustain inner peace?</li><li>What am I missing?</li><li>What does addiction and recovery have to teach us?</li></ul>

Self Refelection

<ul><li>How can I become a more natural & effective collaborator?</li><li>How can I make problem-solving fun and attractive?</li><li>How can I generate income pursuing my interests?</li><li>What are the key skills to prepare for the future?</li><li>What forms of marketing are ethical, profitable for the marketer, and useful for the audience?</li><li>How do I build a career I don’t want to retire from?</li><li>How do I create residual streams of income that can buffer my productivity highs and lows?</li><li>What is the best platform for me as a creator?</li><li>What should my personal brand be, and how do I get it there?</li></ul>

Business & Career 

<ul><li>How can I not lose track of my core values and live up to them?</li><li>How can I foster greater understanding, equality, and unity without disenfranchising any in the landscape of gender diversity?</li><li>How do I live a fulfilled life with no regrets in all aspects of my life?</li><li>How can I deepen my self-awareness and sharpen the values that are most personal to me, so that they permeate all areas of my life?</li><li>What can I do to get clearer on my purpose?</li><li>How can people utilize technology in a way that corresponds to their values?</li></ul>

Values

<ul><li>How do I express myself clearly and more often to my wife to show her that I love her to the moon and beyond?</li><li>How can we cultivate a romantic relationship of respect, understanding, support, care, affection, and passion as a couple, which will serve as an example to our children so that they grow up to become adults responsible for the reality they live in, respecting themselves and others?</li><li>How can I curiously explore life together with my life partner?</li></ul>

Love, Spouse or Partner

What are we learning for. Here is a list of common questions people ask when going for knowledge.

Tiago Forte shares his running list of the most interesting, resonant, and provocative open questions his students have shared over the years.

Knowing to DO

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