sentences. Jot down the ideas for guest posts. When I find an interesting topic, I mark the section with letter A and I draw a circle around the letter. This reminds me, that I should take action on the concept some way (for instance by writing a guest post about it). 3. Extract key concepts, combine them. Make a list of the key concepts of a book while reading it. And don't stop there, find ways to connect the concepts together. Some of the key concepts in that book were habit loops and keystone habits. While you can learn more about the habit loops from Steve's post, the keystone habit is an important habit, which can reflect changes to other parts of one's life too (for example, when you lose weight, you also decide to start exercising, become an early riser, become more social, etc. ...) I just took these two concepts and wrote a guest post about it . After doing that, I learned them on much a deeper level than just by reading about them. 4. Outline, write and submit your post. Now that you have extracted the concepts, write the post. I'm using Danny's method to do this, but you can naturally follow your own system if you want to. After editing and proofreading the post, find a suitable blog and submit the post there. Make sure that you have a compelling bio box at the end, so that people will get back to your blog or