How to Take Notes like Kendrick Lamar

Kendrick Lamar once said note-taking is the closest thing we have to time travel.

Yes, the Grammy and Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper is a self-proclaimed note-taking God. Taking notes is how Kendrick conserves precious ideas, develops them over time, and eventually turns them into art.

And in this video, I’m going to deconstruct Kendrick’s note-taking system and his overall creative process so that YOU can learn from one of our greatest contemporary writers.


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