> Bottom-up thinking involves taking notes at the individual level, relating them to old notes, and then growing them over time to create something entirely new. Top-down thinking involves combining individual notes into a MOC or a project. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h2p8p2c4e5bm6zbw5pfnqpqn)) - Feeling - Emotions - Chaos - Causes anxiety - Overconsumption - Curiosity - [[Idea Divergence]] - Helps generate thoughts - Facilitated through [[Making connections between notes]] ## Benefits Promotes [[Creativity]]. ## Obstacles - Perfectionism, refer to [[Overcoming perfectionism]] - [[Exhaust your inner critic]] - Try to implement something like the [[Snowball effect]] so you can just start ## Methods For Bottom-Up Thinking Even though I'm more naturally a top-down thinker, it's still very important to be able to bottom-up think, so I still tried out the methods Nick Milo discusses for doing so. He taught us three methods for bottom-up thinking: - General concept of [[Note-making]] - [[RRR Note-Making Method]] - [[Idea Emergence]] - The 7 C's Of Notemaking ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h2p8qsks76beefg38q6xrw9j))