Recap
Taking Notes
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Taking Notes
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Key Idea
Are you writing notes for your current self or your future self? Before you write down any notes, ask yourself if this will make sense one month from now.
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Your notes should provide you with a clear summary for rapid revision. The detail is for the textbook, not your notes.
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Your key points within your notes should be finding you, not you finding them.
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If you take notes on everything, you will remember nothing.
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Every useless word you include in your notes is another distraction. Ruthlessly cut this dead weight from your notes
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“If you can’t explain it to a six-year-old, you don’t understand it yourself.” -Albert Einstein
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Concepts provide a framework to build your facts on top of. Without this framework, facts are just random pieces of information.
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All knowledge isn’t equal. Don’t waste your time on low-quality information.