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Level-up Your Note-taking
The Way You’re Taking Notes Is Completely Flawed — Here’s Why
Painful Observations Triggered by More than 10 Years of “Dumb” Note-taking
You’re probably taking notes.
A lot of them.
Whenever you encounter interesting information, you can’t help yourself except write it down.
And yes, I know what your ultimate goal is:
Using this information later on, right?
How did I know that?
For the simple reason that I’ve been doing this myself for ten years!
After amassing a ton of notes, I realized that I was barely revisiting them.
In other words, I was BSing myself with “re-using my notes later on”.
With that realization, I had two options:
Continue lying to myself, or start flipping the tables and changing.
I chose option number two.
So I started to ask myself serious questions like:
— Why do I take notes?
— What is their ultimate purpose?
The answer to these…
