The Best Way to Acquire Knowledge from Readings

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• not easy to fully digest

• difficult to recall knowledge

• hard to apply what I’ve learned to my current work.

• Step 2: Dissect the content of a book into granular concepts.

• start by skimming through all the content to identify key concepts.

• Step 1: Highlight all important paragraphs while reading.

• I always describe the concept in one sentence and use that sentence as the title of the card

• Step 3: Map the relationships between these concepts.

• I gradually add connections between them, or place similar concept cards next to each other

• Step 4: Group similar concepts together.

• After extracting all the content from the original book cards

• close the split panel and start working on mapping and grouping relationships

• The real magic happens during steps 2–4, when you put in the mental effort to rethink the structure of the knowledge you learned, write a title sentence for each card, and create a name for each section

• Step 5: Recall and apply concepts

• To improve retention of the acquired knowledge, I suggest scheduling when to review each whiteboard using a method such as spaced repetition.

• figure out the structure of the knowledge and be able to articulate that structure clearly.

• most of these tools put too much focus on how you store your notes (e.g., folders, graphs, relational databases, etc.)

• 身為一個時常閱讀的人，閱讀最讓我感到困擾的地方在於那些最好的書往往包含大量的內容，要完全地將這些內容消化有時並不容易。就算我將內容消化了，時間一久，當我在工作時突然想用以前所學的知識時，往往也很難單靠大腦記憶就回想起過去的所學。 這個問題不只發生在我身上，也發生在我認識的許多人身上。我想這也是大部分筆記軟體（又稱知識管理軟體）想要解決的問題。但不幸的是，我覺得大部分的筆記軟體都過度專注在教你用什麼架構去保存筆記（例：階層、網狀、資料庫），卻沒有在吸收知識（acquisition）、留存知識（retention）和應用知識（application）等學習過程中最關鍵的環節提出改善方案。

• 著名的費曼學習法認為深度學習一個主題最好的方式，就是嘗試把你在學習的主題教給小孩。我的想法是不管你想要教別人什麼，你都必須先釐清你要教的知識架構，並且有辦法把這樣的架構清楚地陳述出來。在我提出的方法中，我們可以透過五個簡單的步驟達到這件事情： 將閱讀的過程中看到的所有重要段落記錄下來 將紀錄下來的重要段落拆解成顆粒度更小的概念 畫出概念之間的關聯性 將相似的概念群組起來 回想和使用概念

• 第一步：將閱讀的過程中看到的所有重要段落記錄下來 在我的方法論的第一步中，我們會需要把在閱讀過程中看到的重要段落記錄下來並且按照章節整理。