I’ve tried every fancy note-taking strategy in the world, but I’ve found the simple strategy that works for me:
This pocket notebook and pen.
I write down anything that strikes me as interesting, but...
Rule: I have to “act” on anything I write down within 24 hours.
Act can mean:
• Teaching the idea to someone
• Reading to learn more
• Executing the to-do item
• Crossing the note off as uninteresting
The point is that anything that gets written has to create some movement. It means that anything I write has real weight to it.
Pocket size means I can’t take too many notes (high-impact ideas only). This plus my "act rule" prevents the kind of copy and paste arbitrary note-taking that plagued my school years.
I've been using this strategy for the last year and it has worked wonders:
• Significantly improved idea retention
• Better focus on identifying the important
• Lower stress/anxiety about "missing" things
If you've ever struggled to find a strategy that works, give it a shot and let me know what you think.
Life lessons from my father that I want to teach to my son:
1. You can tell everything you need to know about a person by observing how they treat service workers.
2. Hard work will never be overrated. You have to work hard if you want to get ahead.
3. You don't need to have an opinion on everything. It's perfectly reasonable to have no opinion on something that you haven't researched or don't understand.
4. You can get pretty damn far in life by just saying what you're going to do and then doing it.
5. Showing up early costs very little and pays off handsomely in the long run.
6. Waking up early is the easiest way to improve your odds of success. You don't have to wake up early to be successful, but you rarely find an early riser that isn't winning.
7. Having good posture is a physical and mental unlock for life.
8. Being kind to people is the only real life hack. Kindness remains severely underrated.
9. Consistency is everything. You should never bet against a person who just keeps showing up.
10. Most of us need fewer friends and more intellectual sparring partners. Friends are pleasant and easy to come by, but intellectual sparring partners question our assumptions and force us to level up.
Those are 10 life lessons I learned from my father that I want to teach to my son.
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I’ve changed my mind.
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