The one thing you have that no one else has is your life experience.
There is value in that life experience, value that only you can realize. Whether this is your unique perspective, your unique idea, or simply the fact that you have gone down a path that others will go down.
Capturing those perspectives, ideas, and experiences is a skill that everyone should cultivate. Knowing what you have gone through will help the next person going through something similar. Your perspective on your experiences creates value. Your ideas built from your ideas create unique value.
Capturing those perspectives, ideas, and experiences isn’t as simple as just writing them down. Journaling also includes how you organize what is documented so that it can be retrieved and used.
The only way to understand how to organize your perspective, ideas, and experiences is to practice. Journal and then retrieve what you have written to create something that is then journaled again. Through the practice of journaling and reviewing and organizing what you have journaled you will find what works for you
This is the beginning of creating your personal book of knowledge