[[Forte, Tiago|tiago forte]] [[Forte, Tiago - 2020 - A Complete Guide to Tagging for Personal Knowledge Management|shared]] his “knowledge lifecyle”, or the series of steps necessary to turn knowledge into a finished product: ``` - Identifying knowledge - Capturing knowledge - Verifying knowledge - Interpreting knowledge - Organizing knowledge - Categorizing knowledge - Disseminating knowledge - Combining knowledge - Creating knowledge - Using knowledge - Re-evaluating knowledge ``` in his 2024-11-14 newsletter, [[Clear, James|james clear]] listed the steps in his “creative process”: ``` 1. Discover - Read a lot. Observe the world. Notice. 2. Collect - Immediately record anything that strikes you. 3. Generate - Build on your notes to brainstorm lots of ideas. 4. Combine - Connect previously unconnected ideas. 5. Refine - Edit, edit, edit. Select the best. ``` while well-thought-out and -defined steps are helpful in establishing our own processes, it’s important not to get caught up in the specifics any individual system, framework, or method; most of them can be summarized as `input > processing > output`. whether your craft – the thing that you *do* – is writing, painting, stitching, learning, coding, composing, or filming, the cycle you go through will generally be: 1. generate / capture / collect inputs like inspiration, sources, materials. 2. engage with that input – usually reading / watching, integrating into a larger catalog, and / or recording your reactions to it. in many cases, this involves deconstructing inputs into smaller parts and combining those smaller parts to craft something different, leading to ⤵ 3. create a new thing with support from your processed input. ## changelog ### [[2025-01-31]] snoozing: - [[my knowledge lifecycle]] - [[the knowledge lifecycle is the series of steps you perform to turn knowledge into a finished product]] - [[the standard knowledge lifecycle is input to processing to output]] - [[the creative process]]