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“It is not so important who you are, but what you do. Doing the work required and doing it in a smart way leads, somehow unsurprisingly, to success.”

Every intellectual endeavour starts with a note.

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Endspurt. 😜

Si creemos que el paso inicial de la escritura es a partir de una página en blanco, tenemos razón para agobiarnos. Quienes tomen notas de forma eficaz, no se enfrentarán nunca más a una pantalla en blanco.

So ... setzen wir also fort. 😁

The system presented in the first chapter sounds an awful lot like the one used by Robert Greene & Ryan Holliday.

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The book introduced me to new conversations about note-taking and reflecting on academic practices. However, there was a lack of basic instruction and examples…which is the title of the book.

It is so much easier to develop an interesting text from a lively discussion with a lot of pros and cons than from a collection of one-sided notes and seemingly fitting quotes.

Having a clear, tangible purpose when you attend a lecture, discussion or seminar will make you more engaged and sharpen your focus.
3.5

Ok. Would be more useful to a full time researcher.

It was not that helpful to me as a high school kid who read mostly fiction books. But it will be very useful to those who read much are able to follow the given instructions. If it is followed they will be able to use the information that they gained from the book in their daily life...

this book may be well organized but god is it boring

My God, if I'd had this book in university... Anyone who hopes to build knowledge in anything or write about anything would benefit from reading this book. It really flips the traditional studying and writing approach on its head, in the best way possible.

“Nobody will open a book and wish it contains more types of letters or be disappointed because it is, again, just another variation of the same alphabet.”

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"Our brains just love routines. Before new information prompts our brains to think differently about something, they make the new information fit into the known or let it disappear completely from our perception. Usually, we don’t even notice when our brains modify our surroundings to make it fit its expectations. We need therefore a bit of a ruse to break the power of thinking routines. "

Taking notes...

So I downloaded Obsidian and everyone's talking about this book. Might as well read it, it's short enough.
The main complaint so far has been a lack of detail in just HOW to implement this miracle system... I mean the guy's fascinating enough, sure, but I'd like to hear more about how to do this for myself.
Having ADHD, I need help lol

He (Richard Feynman) couldn’t stand textbooks full of pseudo-explanations, and teachers who tried to make learning easier for students by using artificial “real-life” examples instead of using their actual prior understanding as a connection point.

Funny how thousands of people highlighted texts after the author explained how this is a terrible technique to understand a book. (I started with the Kindle version but now continuing with the paperback.)

We can distract from argumentative gaps with confident gestures or drop a casual “you know what I mean” irrespective of whether we know what we meant.In writing, these manoeuvres are a little too obvious. It is easy to check a statement like “But that is what I said”The most important advantage of writing is that it helps us to confront ourselves when we do not understand something as well as we would like to believe

I wish I would have read this years ago. Years!

A good indication that a note has been left unprocessed too long is when you no longer understand what you meant or it appears banal. In the first case, you forgot what it was supposed to remind you of. In the second case, you forgot the context that gave it its meaning.

This may be the bet book on scientific research and how to not lose time and motivation and start producing papers i have ever read. Wish this had been written 30 years ago.

Really helpful way to think about learning, reading, and understanding.

It's starting to get repetitive...