I've just written this as a first page in the Do Interesting book. (Don't worry, we've also written other pages. This isn't all there is.)
If you’re in a bookshop trying to decide whether to buy this book this is the page you want.
Interesting isn’t something you are, it’s something you do. You get more interesting by being more interested, by paying a little more attention to the world. And there are a bunch of relatively easy, ways to do that. Which we’ve divided into three sections
Noticing - you should spend a little bit of time, dailyish, paying extra attention to the world and noticing something new about it.
We’ve got 23 ways you could do that.
Collecting - you should make an extra effort, weeklyish, to collect and compile what you’ve noticed so you can find it and use it again.
We’ve got 15 ways you could do that.
Making - you should do something with what you’ve collected, monthishly. You should make something that you put back into the world. Something interesting.
We’ve got 21 ways you could do that.
We’ve also interviewed a bunch of interesting people who aren’t Steve Jobs or Picasso but just regular people like you and me who tell us how they do all this.
*if not you’re not an executive please don’t read this page