Reading Notes – Reconceptualizing thinking and writing

The introduction

And “dog money” as some regret not to see the book, this book is very easy to make readers think that is a kind of methodology, as if the author of gold one hour earlier, introduce your personal time investment practice, for most people is difficult to draw lessons from, because understand the methods and knowledge is likely to be a flash, But the actual use of such methods and knowledge needs repeated deliberate practice to achieve, back to the title of the book after reading the biggest feeling is to re-cognitive reading and writing, subversion of the way of thinking of the book seems to be very few.

Also in the front row to remind the sequence of 50 pages of this book, the individual feels is also one of the reasons for “destroyed”, suggest the body directly, don’t be trapped by some comment on what “a post can clear words to write a book”, this comment almost every few book will see one or two, personally think that if keep this idea to learn and despise all, Then you end up being a hammer man who only sees nails. “In a word, ‘not the expression of essence, but the expression of lack of knowledge. Be careful not to become a hammer man who only sees nails.

Resources to address

Link: pan.baidu.com/s/1pol0Rv1l… Extraction code: NE7A

If the resources are invalid, you can get them through the public account “Laishi Xiaowu” reply: “Card notes writing method”. Of course, you can also pay attention to me, hey hey.

Recommended language

This book is to apply the concept of a deeper level of introduction and extension, and we have to accept the traditional use of mind mapping, Cornell study method or the various method of note-taking, card reading method does not pay attention to note itself, but rather focus on the notes above thinking, traditional way of note-taking is often because of time and gradually forgotten, The human brain is not applicable to linear knowledge, but the card notes method to focus on record content and thinking, abandon, focusing on “excerpt” and “output”, and knowledge is only written in your own words, otherwise should be put in the bin, and the Chinese because the exam-oriented education traditional habit of mind is always not consciously heavy result instead of process, Lead to a lot of thinking is simple handling knowledge rather than produce their own thinking, and the core of the book is here, we can learn to use card notes to get rid of this evil cycle, it is recommended that every reader poisoned by the test to calm down and take a look at this book, I believe there must be no small harvest.

Personal assessment

Book one of the biggest differences is that it does not teach you what to do, use what method, teach you how to do, but how to think better and emphasis between thinking and knowledge, and then let the link between knowledge and knowledge, relevance is the key of the learn to think writing and reading, when we use the card to record the note in combination with tools to deepen thinking, When the knowledge is abundant and the number of knowledge cards increases, the network of knowledge is naturally formed, and the knowledge is connected through links, and writing is also a natural thing. So flashcards are a good book to read again and again. If most books teach you how to use techniques, this is how to exercise your mind.

Good and bad

Of course, this book is not a perfect book. Here are my personal comments on the merits of this book. Generally speaking, it is still a good book in flaws, and can even overturn readers’ perceptions of writing, reading and recording.

First, the cons:

  1. The preface in front is indeed a bit long and more than 50 pages long, so it is easy for readers to mistake it as a bad book. Frankly speaking, the preface is just boasting. Many authors’ thoughts in the preface also easily lead readers to misunderstand the content of the book, such as thinking that it is a soft and broad book or a utilitarian book.
  2. Recommended some software on how to better use cards and knowledge links, I think a little soft meaning.

Benefits:

  1. Show you the steps to prepare for independent thinking from a variety of perspectives and how to practice card-taking.
  2. The essential difference between the traditional thinking mode and the card note-taking thinking mode is compared.
  3. Why knowledge is networks and links, why our knowledge is not as neat and orderly as a bookshelf, and why our linear memory is unreliable.

As you can see, the basic is bad for the book commercial criticism, it is also hard to avoid can understand the essence of the book is to just rice to make money, after all, but to see the bright side of the book is not tell you the biggest benefit of the optimal solution, but to tell you how to practice and use what way to draw their own optimal solution, and this is the book I think the biggest value.

Knowledge links

  1. “The Way to Learn” : Distracted attention and focused attention mentioned in this book are similar to the book’s focused mode and divergent mode. The focused mode is the mode of concentrating on one thing, while the divergent mode is easier
  2. “Poor Charlie’s Bible” : The hammer man thought, if you do not have multiple thought models, everything will see a nail.
  3. “So reading is enough” : in this book mentioned the demolition calligraphy, demolition calligraphy and card notes writing method can be very good combination, it is divided into reading and understanding the content of the page, guidance and demolition for their own use, and card notes focus on the record with thinking.
  4. Master Habits and MicroHabits: Mentioned how to build a positive feedback loop control habit, any result from the process to the way of incentives to stimulate are ultimately would fail, but truly effective feedback from results to process, after changed this layer of cognition, we can use micro habits from a push-up began to let all of the target can be done through the form of a quantitative So it is with changing habits of behavior, so it is with changing habits of thought.

thinking

Before we get into the formal stuff, let’s discuss a few topics about thinking.

Why think?

Why do we need to think? Here are some personal answers to this question:

  1. Thinking (writing) can not only to acquire knowledge to enhance memory, but to absorb more of the mind and build their own model of thinking, the single thinking like a man with a hammer to see what problems are nails, such as there are many kinds of transportation to Shanghai, but the fastest and safest is always by plane instead of by high-speed rail, But when you don’t have a plane and you can do something else without being unable to walk, it’s especially important to use a multi-mind model.
  2. People often believe in what they know and avoid unfamiliar and difficult-to-master skills. It’s not that you don’t understand, it’s that your brain is trying to “skip class.”
  3. It is necessary to construct their own thinking frame and thinking model, so that there is a correlation between knowledge points, independent thinking will not go with the flow, listen to east and west.

It also reminds the reader to think about the purpose of any article before reading it. Even if you are reading it for fun and relaxation, try to think about what pleasure it gives you, rather than just finishing it.

Don’t kid yourself

The most easy to deceive yourself, do not deceive yourself. Learning and thinking are not only about keeping ourselves rational, but also about not deceiving ourselves. There are readers who have the feeling: Why do we finish a book and feel worthless? The reason why reading is useless is that many people simply carry the author’s thoughts into their memory, without thinking of digesting or applying them or helping them to change. Obviously they deceive themselves and mistakenly blame books for this deception, so they often come to believe that reading is useless.

Think carefully will understand books give the biggest benefit is that you won’t because in a bad mood will tell you the wrong book content, also won’t because you are happy to tell you more things, it doesn’t make any change, you have to sum up the experiences of many will only stay in my memory, not on books and, of course, reading is a matter of investment is very big, Because the cost of reading a book is far greater than the cost of the book according to your hourly salary, you should not deceive yourself when you read a good book or content that is thoughtful. It is more important to record and reflect on it. It is not enough to read it once.

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A few mistakes in daily writing

From this book, we can see that the book mentions several mistakes in writing:

  • The more you read, the better you think it is, but the more you see, the more you panic and don’t know how to start.
  • There are two traditional ways of thinking, one is to rush the draft writing, one is the face of white paper panic, always think that writing is the Chinese test paper 800 words composition.
  • The time spent reading materials and reviewing literature, rather than thinking about it and correcting it, is also a powerful barrier to good writing.
  • Mistook notes for knowledge.

Let’s look at these four points in order:

First of all, writing is impossible to create works out of thin air, but it is closely related to past experience and cognition. We cannot solve equations and calculate probability and calculus without learning mathematics. However, it does not mean that the more we read, the more we can write. Therefore, more often than not, good and true writing lies in the accumulation of daily life rather than in a moment of inspiration in front of a blank sheet of paper. I believe that no one can imagine a book on a blank sheet of paper. It has nothing to do with talent.

And second, because of the common way of writing is like at the completion of tasks, rather than focus on the process of thinking, our original purpose of writing actually or for yourself, so don’t deceive your real thinking of writing is to resonate with real were also more likely to get approval, has attracted great attention in order to promote thinking and reading, and thinking and reading to attract others attention are two different things.

The third point points out a common problem in daily writing, that is, it is easy to spend more time looking up materials than writing and thinking. We will spend a lot of time to check the fit between writing and materials, but forget the purpose of writing, even forget what we are writing.

Last point refers to the wrong notes as knowledge, register approach can be used to test or pass the scene, but this is absolutely not applicable to writing, marking just the language of our touches an idea, this idea is fleeting, don’t record is unable to form their own thinking, this feeling is like applause but don’t know where he feels good.

Focus mode and divergent mode

Divergent patterns: sleeping, driving, partial physical activity, such as running, swimming, and anything that can be done subconsciously, etc.

Concentration mode: Playing games, watching movies, surfing the Internet, reading books, drawing, writing and other operations that require concentration. Willpower is consumed every time you focus on thinking.

These two patterns corresponding to the focus of attention in this book and floating concentration, focus attention points out that you want to better reading and absorption and write down more high quality content, the first thing you need to do is to do only one thing at a time, and if you want to need to rely on creative thinking floating attention to complete, is people’s attention with a daily limit, We need to be careful using concentration and divergence of two kinds of mode switches to improve efficiency, the explanation of the divergent and focus patterns can refer to the study of the pages at the front of the part, there are more rich and scientific case to explain, because this is not the focus of this article, so the interested reader can read directly from the link down below the book, It’s easier than trying to explain it in my own words.

The Way to Learn: pan.baidu.com/s/1fk-yKMXx… Extraction code: HH6M

Warehouse or Network

See here please stop to think about a question: is the human brain by the network of knowledge points and knowledge points constitute memory more firmly? Or is it more secure through linear memory warehousing?

The fact is that for network and knowledge form memories are more reliable, and this is the book upset me the one of the reasons for the cognition of reading and writing, one chapter of memory is no confusion and difficult to arrange, but a lot of notes such as Cornell notes method is emphasis on how to better linear records better memory, linear memory is the habit of exam-oriented education brings us, In high school, for example, for example we only need to review on history in a history book repeatedly reading of the colleges, in addition is some hot spots of information, although, of course, which may unavoidably mixed with geographical knowledge, but always change from them, we only need to apply the key records and understand a little bit in the exam will be able to get the right answer.

Linear memory and network knowledge points compared to the best case is about the concept of Marine sealed container, the container are classified neatly in our eyes, we often think of those containers will only be installed those content, actually he will put a broad categories of content, such as articles for daily use is likely to be put into a large container, In a large container of layered together all sorts of seemingly unrelated to other classification, they can be more effective management, it also more confirms the human brain is difficult to use linear memory to recall, but use network classifies the forms of knowledge, separation, such as tooth brush and towel are two seemingly have no relationship, But there is an invisible link to waking up earlier.

In addition, a good case of understanding network knowledge is the classification of supermarkets, which is left for readers to think about as homework.

What is card-taking?

Method from the point of the contents of the book, card note is a link for the knowledge classification, use a variety of thinking model using CARDS for knowledge in the form of series, eventually form a knowledge network thinking and learning methods, this method looks be like simple, actually need to repeatedly with the hand a large number of deliberate practice can be flexible to use, use the card notes the benefits of reading method is as follows:

  • Focus creates flashpoints, how to think and produce content more efficiently with limited attention and the rule that the human brain can only remember seven things.
  • How to re-treat the notes themselves, we focus on the value of the knowledge itself, if it leads to thinking and skill development, it’s meaningful content, whereas it can be put in the trash because it’s hard to recall the archived knowledge.
  • Use flashcards to make writing as easy as taking notes.
  • The point is to record and recall information in a timely way. The human brain is a very unreliable flash memory.

Reading through this book, you will find that the book itself is actually compiled in the form of card collection. The paragraphs seem to be loose, but they are closely connected, just like the arrangement of commodities in the supermarket is messy and tidy.

Note cards are divided into flash notes, document notes and permanent notes:

Split second note refers to our daily reading a paragraph in the suddenly bring their thinking and feeling, but if not immediately thought notes into useful content, it is best not to record at first, bring their inspiration thinking need immediate cash, the only way is to record, and it can completely be like a garbage, If you put it in the right place and it can be reused properly, it’s none of your business (or someone else’s business).

Literature notes are more advanced than flash notes for theoretical and professional knowledge. It is the combination of thinking and knowledge and the essence of literature notes. Literature notes are formed by sorting out messy thinking and knowledge.

Finally is permanent notes, permanent notes is anything related to practical methodology, the traditional way of evaluation, each person has a different habits cannot but method can be at ease use card notes on the card in the correlation, the whole process is very relaxed and happy, but also be careful notes because they are likely to be deposited as the bin has been permanently, So it is necessary to review your permanent notes regularly according to the forgetting curve of your brain as planned.

You can’t understand if you don’t write

If you don’t write it down, you will never understand it. Only by breaking up the knowledge and putting forward your own ideas and arguments can you produce your own things on this basis. While a person with a strong memory can remember a great deal of detail, it can also be a great burden. A photographic memory, while enviable, can distract a great deal of attention and erase many details. Therefore, if you want to build connections between texts, it is best to replace memory with real understanding knowledge. You will find that the burden on your brain is very light, and it is important to use tools skillfully to reduce the burden on your brain.

The case for understanding memory: The difference between an artery and a vein? Why are the walls of arteries thicker than the walls of veins?

How does card writing split attention

  • Don’t follow TODO’s order before you’ve done something. Pandering to the reader and setting deadlines won’t produce good writing because writing is about the process, not the result.
  • Clearly distinguish an article writing process, writing needs to draft, review, approval, proofreading, translation, citation and so on, so we need to write the article can be quantified, so that there will not be half written or unable to come out. The process is similar to painting, where you draw a rough line, then you sketch a mold, then you paint, color, depth of field, and so on, and then you finish the work
  • Using the brain is too tiring, we need to use tools and external brain, the book introduces the externalization of things, in fact, this externalization is the process of writing quantification.

Don’t worry about form

At the end of the article reading notes, I hope readers don’t entangled with excessive card reading notes itself, anyway this is a man thought for a long time to form a model of thinking and habits, habits and thinking is the hardest to change people’s habits, in addition to any external things, unless the author to explain to you, otherwise shall remain dubious attitude, In an era of rapid knowledge iteration, selective absorption is more important than total acceptance.

How can you not focus on form? Here also need to contact the above mentioned

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Good tool

flomo

The app was directly inspired by the book, so it’s no surprise to see ads in the book. I don’t want to make too much introduction here. The specific effect can be seen in the screenshots provided below. I believe that interested readers will search and understand by themselves.

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wolai

Was delayed by the name of a good software, the current individual also joined this group, software iteration and update speed is also very enviable.

Independent thinking

educated

Card note writing reminds me to educated this concept, a lot of people do in reality educated with the brain, grasp the knowledge from the books to the brain, he was their own knowledge, so there is no doubt that is wrong, it's also one of the exam-oriented education sadness, just like the story of his original.Copy the code

What is his original story about? Huishi was a man of great learning, writing as many as five wagons, and writing in disorder and indiscretion. He analyzed one of the things and said, “The thing that is extremely big without margin is called ‘great’; Those so small that they have no core are called ‘small ones’. No thickness, not cumulative, but can expand to thousands of miles. The sky is as low as the earth, and the mountains are as flat as the jersey. As soon as the sun is upright, it will skew, and as soon as all things are born, it will turn to death. Great similarity and small homogeneity difference, this is called ‘small homogeneity’; Everything is completely identical and completely different, which is called ‘great sameness’. The south has neither exhaustion nor exhaustion. Today it goes to Yue and yesterday it came. The chain can be undone. The center of the world as I know it lies to the north of yan and to the south of Yue. Love all things, heaven and earth together.

So it seems that well-educated is a derogatory term.

Application and Practice

How to use the software and record cards is not my responsibility. Please ask the author of the book and software. I am not a professional, so here are some personal skills (totally subjective) :

  • Flomo cards are best put into permanent notes within a period of time. Stacking is not recommended for individuals.
  • Don’t think of FLOMO as a note-taking storehouse. It can only be used as a part of flash-thinking. It is a tool for thinking and summarizing knowledge, not another notepad for you.
  • Don’t rely on software. Hammer heads can drive nails, wood can drive nails, and if necessary, your fists can drive nails.

Why not talk about the author?

Readers who have read my reading notes will find that I never talk about the author. Here is a unified explanation: how the author uses it to achieve brilliant career has nothing to do with me. I am a rational and realistic person, and I will only record what is useful to me.

Write in the last

All kinds of visiting relatives and friends during the New Year, through the fragments of time thinking and fragmentation reading summarizes this article reading notes, purpose is to let readers know more with this book, the book personal brush two stage at present, because for a good book to read how many times how many times have harvest, hope readers can see their when the content of the enlightenment must record, Write down what you feel, no matter how much you understand. You’ll find that you have plenty of ideas to write about, and practice will eventually develop the habit of thinking for yourself.

Finally, I hope the readers can have a selective understanding and thinking in writing the notes for this book. In addition, if you have good ideas or questions and suggestions for this book, you can send me a private message through the public account “Laishi Xiaowu”.