These days, you might type ideas into the Notes app. But that’s just a testament to the importance of history’s real creative titan: the humble notebook.
Leonardo da Vinci kept a notebook. So did Frida Kahlo and Isaac Newton, along with Marie Curie and even Chaucer. If you recognize someone from history, chances are good they kept a notebook or a diary, somewhere they could write out their ideas and consider new ones. In so doing, they helped make the world we know today. In a new book, the author Roland Allen tells the history of the notebook and argues for its continued relevance today. He says that actually taking the time to put pen to paper not only makes us more creative, but it just may make us happier, too.
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Roland Allen |Author of “The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper” [Amazon|Bookshop].
Airdate: Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025 at 9 a.m. and Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025 at 11 a.m.