The Brutal Truth About Reading: If You Don’t Take Notes Right, You’ll Forget Nearly Everything
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The Brutal Truth About Reading: If You Don’t Take Notes Right, You’ll Forget Nearly Everything
Most people compare themselves to the few best in their field and judge themselves unfit to share their knowledge (impostors syndrome). Rather, what they should do is compare themselves to the thousands of people who want the skill they have and would be willing to pay for it. In other words, we are all climbing the mountain of knowledge. As a teacher, thought leader, writer, mentor, or coach, what matters most is not the few at the peak, but the throngs at the base.
Everyone is a teacher. Knowledge is abundant. The more you give it, the more you have it. When you teach others, you teach a student and create a future teacher. You become a link in the chain of wisdom that gets passed from human to human and generation to generation.
Most people compare themselves to the few best in their field and judge themselves unfit to share their knowledge (impostors syndrome). Rather, what they should do is compare themselves to the thousands of people who want the skill they have and would be willing to pay for it.
We ask ourselves, “Who am I to share what I know?” Actually, who are you not to share? You have an embarrassment of riches. You know more than 99.9% of people in human history. You having impostor’s syndrome does not serve the world. Everyone is a teacher. Knowledge is abundant. The more you give it, the more you have it. When you teach others, you teach a student and create a future teacher. You become a link in the chain of wisdom that gets passed from human to human and generation to generation.
memories are sandcastles blown away by the tides of time
While there are many articles and books on how to take private notes better, I’ve found almost nothing on how to take better public notes. This has always struck me as odd because we spend decades building up the knowledge in our head. This knowledge could help thousands of people and is worth millions of dollars (more on this later), yet 99% of it sits dormant. It’s like putting millions of dollars under our mattress and then forgetting about it. By sharing our knowledge publicly, we let our knowledge do the work for us like money earns us interest when invested.
That the brain is more of a forgetting machine than a remembering machine.
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By sharing our knowledge publicly, we let our knowledge do the work for us like money earns us interest when invested.
When most people learn, they unknowingly over-focus on Snow Cone Knowledge. Snow Cone Knowledge is valuable if you use it now, but it’s worth nothing if you let too much time pass by because it either gets outdated or becomes irrelevant.
lose your empathy for what it’s like to be a beginner and become a worse teacher
As time goes by, you will lose your excitement to share. You will never be as excited to share a new insight as you are when you first have it. As time goes by, the insight becomes obvious and automatic. As a result, you become less excited to share and you lose your empathy for what it’s like to be a beginner and become a worse teacher.
Here’s how I think about it. The total value of knowledge is a function of: How often you use it over time How valuable it is when you use it
In addition, there is Just In Case Knowledge. This is when you spend time learning something that you may or may not use in the future.
Sharing what you learn helps you remember it (more on this later). So, if you don’t share now, you will forget more and more of the critical subtleties that others need to learn from you.
the brain is more of a forgetting machine than a remembering machine
As much as investors are wealthy “on paper” because they own stocks, you are wealthy “in brain” because of your skills and knowledge.
As much as investors are wealthy “on paper” because they own stocks, you are wealthy “in brain” because of your skills and knowledge.
Titanium Knowledge is durable knowledge that is used often and keeps its value over decades
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Janica Solis
Making your notes in public will make you read and take notes "mindfully" because you know other people are going to read it. It can benefit you and others for a long time.
Kazuki
The Benefits of Public Note-taking: - (1) Future Value for self and other people. Leaving notes with context helps you remember the info in the future. You and other people can also search and connect the dots later. - (2) Deeper Understanding. Knowing that your notes could be viewed by others works as a forcing function to let you process the information deeply. Other Thoughts & Keywords: - Someone's trash is someone else's treasure. - Sell your byproduct/sawdust. - Searchability and accessibility. - A forcing function. - Titanium knowledge, just-in-case knowledge, just-in-time knowledge, and snow cone knowledge.
Karan Bavandi
These ideas resonate with me and the language is very similar to what I use marketing Kurator!
Colearning E420
Potentialiser sa prise de notes - top article -
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Dennis Serrano
What I learn from this reading is that extracting information if ok but, extracting, processing, packing the information into valuable and understable pieces makes the difference between value knowledge and average knowledge.
mookio Chen (阿默)
文章主要提倡每天在社交媒體上分享一件有價值的事物，並列舉了三種建議的分享類型：精選連結、內容摘要和人物介紹。 文章強調，這種在社交媒體上邊學邊分享的方法具有以下好處： 立即獲得價值 改進公開分享方法 建立可移至筆記系統的內容庫 幫助克服冒名頂替者綜合症 從這篇文章中，我們可以推斷出以下幾點深層次意義： 每日分享有價值的內容可以讓個人在社交媒體上建立專業形象，吸引更多關注和互動。 這種分享方式有助於個人建立學習和成長的習慣，同時與他人分享知識和經驗。 選擇具有價值的內容分享可以幫助個人提高資訊過濾和評估的能力，使自己成為一個更好的資訊策展人。 藉由分享自己的學習過程，個人可以逐步克服冒名頂替者綜合症，增強自信和成就感。 綜合以上分析，這篇文章主要強調了在社交媒體上持續分享有價值內容的重要性，並介紹了這種方法在個人學習、成長和自信方面的好處。 透過這種分享方式，個人可以在社交媒體上建立專業形象，同時與他人分享知識和經驗，進一步提升自己的資訊過濾和評估能力。
Daniel Felipe Scherer Borborema
A VERDADE BRUTAL SOBRE A LEITURA: SE VOCÊ NÃO ANOTAR CORRETAMENTE, ESQUECERÁ PRATICAMENTE TUDO. # VOCÊ JÁ É UM MILIONÁRIO MENTAL. O que você sabe, use, e, em particular, compartilhe. Quando você disser "Eureka, entendi", compartilhe. # VENDA A SUA SERRAGEM. As suas anotações, suas ideias, seus aprendizados, podem se transformar em um "bem de valor", econômico ou não. # APRENDA CONHECIMENTOS DE VALOR DURADOURO. Snow cone knowledge: tem alto valor agora e perde-o rapidamente. Just in case knowledge: é um conhecimento que eventualmente poderá ter valor para você um dia (ex.: aprender francês). Titanium knowledge: é o conhecimento durável, sempre tem valor, ainda que não seja tão alto (ex.: habilidades de aprendizado). # CRIE MODELOS DE PESQUISA. O tempo lhe permitirá identificar o tipo de informação que você sempre considera relevante nas suas pesquisas, e, assim, desenvolver um modelo que é preenchido em todos os casos. Ex.: um modelo com palavras-chaves, pessoas, e fontes de aprendizado sobre aquele tema. # USE O NOTION PARA AS NOTAS. Possui muitos recursos. # USE BLOCOS SINCRONIZADOS. Quando você atualiza a informação de um bloco, automaticamente ela é atualizada nos locais em que ela é mencionada. # DATABASES. Crie sites usando databases. # QUEBRE AS SUAS NOTAS EM UNIDADES ATÔMICAS. Uma pagina para cada palavra-chave. Uma página para cada recurso. Uma página para cada pessoa. Cada página fala só uma coisa. Benefícios: a) modularidade; b) são páginas completas, ainda que enxutas. # APRENDA A ARQUITETURA DA INFORMAÇÃO E SUA UTILIZABILIDADE. Melhora a qualidade dos textos destinados ao público. # TORNE AS SUAS NOTAS PÚBLICAS COMO PADRÃO. Se as suas notas forem públicas, você se condiciona a fazer notas de melhor qualidade. Incide o explanation effect. # Empacote suas notas, organize-as, para que possamos entender o valor intrínsico do conteúdo delas. # COMECE COMPARTILHANDO O QUE VOCÊ APRENDE, NAS REDES SOCIAIS. Comece isso imediatamente.
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To conclude, there will always be enough niche markets for you to share your personal experience and knowledge, so do not be afraid of starting to share what you have learnt with the public, either in a free way or in a paid way. --- AI's summary: The article discusses the importance of taking effective notes while reading to retain information and turn research waste into a knowledge asset. The author emphasizes the value of sharing knowledge publicly and using keywords, people, and resources to organize notes. They also suggest using paywalls to monetize notes while still offering some free content. The author plans to use their note-taking site on Notion to send out a weekly newsletter and social media posts, with free access to new pages for a limited time before they go behind the paywall.
圓滿廉
用自己的話把你學的知識「組織起來變成心得」，找出主旨、關鍵詞，用自己的想法把它串聯起來。
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