How to Take Smart Notes

by Sönke Ahrens

Studies on highly successful people have proven again and again that success is not the result of strong willpower and the ability to overcome resistance, but rather the result of smart working environments that avoid resistance in the first place (cf. Neal et al. 2012; Painter et al. 2002; Hearn et al. 1998).

Writing is, without dispute, the best facilitator for thinking, reading, learning, understanding and generating ideas we have.

You have to externalise your ideas, you have to write.

Truth does not belong to anyone; it is the outcome of the scientific exchange of written ideas.

Deliberate practice is the only serious way of becoming better at what we are doing