Written by Debbie Harbeson from Debbie Harbeson
If I asked you to tell me about your day yesterday, what would you say?
Did you efficiently and rapidly make it through your well-planned to-do list? Or did you have constant interruptions and distractions?
Did you have a chore or project you really needed to do but chose to procrastinate? Or was yesterday the day you finally focused your energy and finished the job?
Maybe you unexpectedly spent the day in the doctor’s office. Or maybe you visited the internet to do a quick fact check and ended up spending two hours on Twitter.
Maybe you haven’t made it past my second question because you’re scratching your head and thinking, “Are there really people out there who make well-planned to-do lists!?”
No matter what kind of day you had yesterday, whether it went according to plan or not, I can guarantee one thing: you learned something new. Sure, you may not have stopped long enough to really think about it, but it’s a fact that you do learn something new every day.
One way you can put this new knowledge to work for you is to use it to generate topic ideas for your writing.
Start by compiling a list of what you learn every day. On any given day, your list might be short or it might be long; it might be funny, or it might be life-and-death serious.
After a few days, compare your lists. Look for patterns to your insights. You might want to place them into categories. Pretty soon, you’ll have a big file of information you can use in many ways, limited only by your imagination.
This is a natural way to generate new writing material because you’re taking advantage of what your brain does best, which is making new connections. You also have something that is uniquely yours - your individual experiences as you live out your day.
You now have writing prompts that actually mean something to you personally. You will be able to more easily write about the ideas, topics, issues and controversies you run into day in and day out. As a bonus, this act of thinking about how and what you are learning, often called metacognition, often improves your ability to learn.
So, what did you learn today?
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一种简单的方法，激发你写博客的灵感
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如果我问你昨天是怎样度过的，你会说些什么？
你能够根据你的行动计划清单来高效而迅速地做好每件事吗？或者说你经常因为其他事情和精神涣散而中断计划呢？
你是否有这样的经历：你要干家务杂活或者要完成计划，而这些家务和计划是你真的要做的，但最终你还是选择了把它们往后推一推？或者昨天你终于集中精力把要做的事情做完了？
也许你会不知不觉中在医生的办公室呆了一整天。或许本来想上网浏览一则快讯，结果却花了两个小时喋喋不休地聊些不重要的事。
也许你还停留在我的第二个问题上，因为你在挠头：真会有人会把自己要做的事情好好地列在清单上面吗？
不管昨天你过得怎么样，也不管你是不是根据你的计划来行事，我可以向你保证的是：你学到了新的东西。当然，也许你不会花足够长的时间停下来认认真真地考虑你学到什么，但是事实上你确实每天都在学新的东西。
有一种方法可以让你把新学到的知识为你自己所用，那就是把它生成话题并写出来。
以收集一些你每天学到的东西为开始，列成清单。到某一天，你的列表可能是短的，也可能是长的；也许很有趣，或者也会是生死攸关般严肃。
过了几天以后，比较你列出的清单。为你的日常见解寻找处理方式。也许你想要将它们分类整理。很快，你就拥有一堆资料，可以用在很多方面，当然，它们会被你的想象力限制着。
对于收集新的写作素材，这是一种很合适很自然的方法，因为你正在利用你的大脑的最佳状态，而这些正可以产生新的点子。你也可以利用你自己独特的经历——那些你度过日子时所经历的。
现在你拥有了对你个人很重要的创作提示。你将会更容易创作关于你每天的想法、遇到的话题、议题以及争论性的东西。这是一件让人高兴的事情，因为这种做法——思考你怎么学习以及学到了什么，通常称为元认知，它可以提高你的学习能力。
那么，今天你学到了什么呢？ 