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  • - In this video, I'm gonna take you through

  • the seven levels along the journey

  • of trying to remember everything that we read.

  • Hey friends, welcome back to the channel.

  • If you knew him, my name is Ali.

  • I'm a doctor based in the UK and on this channel,

  • we explore the strategies and tools

  • that help us live healthier, happier, more productive lives.

  • And if you're anything like me

  • and you're interested in personal development,

  • lifelong learning, becoming a better thinker

  • and all that stuff you'll know that reading

  • is a very important part of this,

  • but if you're anything like me, you've read a lot of books,

  • but you've probably forgotten the vast majority

  • of the stuff that you've read and probably

  • haven't yet applied it to your life

  • in the way that you'd liked.

  • A few months ago, I realized

  • that this was a big issue for me.

  • And so I've been actively working to try and remedy it.

  • And so in this video, I'm gonna share what I think

  • are the seven levels along this path

  • of trying to remember more of the stuff that we read

  • and apply to our lives.

  • We start off our reading careers at level one, the Muggle.

  • This is basically where we read stuff,

  • but we're just reading it.

  • We're not highlighting it, we're not taking any notes.

  • We're not really engaging with the material

  • beyond just passively reading it.

  • And when we're muggles and trying to learn

  • about a new topic like entrepreneurship or whatever,

  • we'll end up just reading loads and loads and loads

  • and sort of hoping we're gonna passively absorb stuff

  • by diffusion, by osmosis, whatever,

  • but we're not like actively using any brain power

  • to engage with it.

  • This is fine if we're reading fiction, but for nonfiction,

  • and when I read nonfiction, I kind of wanna

  • get some insights from it.

  • I want to learn stuff.

  • I'm a dumb-ass and therefore, I just forget

  • everything that I read and therefore,

  • this isn't good for me.

  • And it's probably not just me

  • because there is a phenomenon in memory research

  • called the forgetting curve, which just shows

  • that over time, our memory for everything decays

  • unless we find a way to engage with it

  • or consolidate our memory of the thing.

  • At some point, we might realize

  • that our Muggle existence is pretty unfulfilling.

  • And so we'll come across level two of the journey,

  • which is The Squib.

  • And when you become a Squib at level two,

  • you're now reading stuff, but you are highlighting

  • or underlining the things

  • that particularly resonate with you.

  • This is easy enough to do if you read on a Kindle

  • or you can use one of these like old school things,

  • I don't even know what the court anymore,

  • because we haven't used this stuff.

  • And this is what I was doing since I first got a Kindle

  • in around 2008, 2009, all the way through to 2018.

  • When I discovered that actually

  • there were more levels along this path.

  • And this is fine because highlighting stuff is kinda nice.

  • And it's kind of fun to use

  • one of these old fashioned antique devices.

  • But the problem with highlighting stuff is

  • A, we actually don't remember the stuff that we highlight

  • and there is a mountain of evidence that shows

  • that highlighting or underlining

  • does nothing to actually improve our memory of the stuff.

  • And we also run into the issue

  • that we've got all these highlights,

  • but they're sort of hidden away inside our book

  • or inside our Kindle and we don't really have a reason

  • to go through them.

  • So that was me from 2008, all the way through to 2018.

  • Those were the dark days.

  • But then in September, 2018,

  • I reached level three, which we're calling Hufflepuff.

  • And level three, Hufflepuff is when you have

  • a systematic system for reviewing your highlights.

  • So in September, 2018, I discovered this amazing service

  • called Readwise.

  • Link in the video description.

  • And what Readwise does is that it automatically

  • connects to your Kindle account and it pulls in

  • all of the highlights you've ever highlighted

  • from all the books that you've read.

  • And what they do is that every day,

  • they send you an email with five random highlights.

  • So I started using read wise in September, 2018,

  • and I've been getting this email every day.

  • And for the first few months,

  • I was religiously reading this email and I found,

  • oh wow, this thing that I highlighted five years ago

  • is now very relevant to me today

  • and the Readwise email has surfaced it for me,

  • which was really awesome.

  • But over the last two years, I've kind of become

  • less and less religious about reading

  • my five daily things in the read wise email.

  • I still get it.

  • I still open it from time to time,

  • but it's a bit too passive for my liking.

  • And that is when we get to level four.

  • And we're calling level four Ravenclaw,

  • because I couldn't think of anything else.

  • And I deeply apologize for playing into the stereotype.

  • I didn't mean it. I'm work, trust me.

  • But level four is what I talked about in my video

  • about the magical Insight Logging Framework,

  • which will be linked to somewhere up here.

  • And basically this is a system whereby

  • you automatically pull in your highlights

  • into a central note taking app.

  • And so we can see here, I've got my Readwise database,

  • which has all the books and it shows

  • all the highlights I've made in each one.

  • So I can look at the books and we can see

  • I've got 126 highlights from "Tools of Titans",

  • all of which are gonna be in here.

  • And it also links very nicely to the location

  • and it opens it up in the Kindle web app

  • if that's what I wanna look at.

  • We also have articles over here.

  • So this is taking all of my highlights from Instapaper

  • and we even have Tweets.

  • So these are tweets that I've saved to Readwise

  • that are automatically coming into Notion.

  • And we have podcasts that this is podcast air quotes

  • that I've taken through the app Air to IO.

  • Again, a lot more details about the system

  • in my magical Insight Logging Framework video,

  • which will be linked up there.

  • And so this is level four.

  • This is where we've got a tool

  • that automatically pulls in our highlights.

  • And because I use Notion

  • for absolutely everything in my life, pretty much,

  • it's all very convenient when it's sitting there.

  • But level four is still a little bit problematic

  • because this is still very passive.

  • All we're doing at this point

  • is we're bringing in highlights and we're hoping

  • that our future selves will at some point

  • revisit the highlights just because we want to.

  • And again, I've been doing this for a few months now,

  • but I found that inevitably other things were coming up

  • and I was not finding the time or making the time

  • to actively review the highlights of the stuff

  • that I'd read in Notion.

  • And this is where we start to get into the fun territory,

  • because now we have level five, which is Dumbledore's Army.

  • And when you're at level five or a member of the DA,

  • you engage with books by taking quick notes

  • on the stuff that you've read.

  • Now I'm gonna show you how I do this in Notion.

  • So I've got this book notes database that has

  • all of the books that I read, fiction and nonfiction.

  • And for each of these categories, fiction and nonfiction,

  • I've created templates that I use

  • for my very quick book reviews.

  • And so if I've just read a nonfiction book,

  • I will put a nonfiction book template here.

  • So it asked me to give the title of the book.

  • I can select a genre so let's say productivity,

  • philosophy and magic.

  • Why not?

  • And I can say the date that I finished it,

  • let's say that was today.

  • And basically what this Notion template does is that

  • it creates these categories for me.

  • So firstly, the book in three sentences,

  • impressions, how i discovered it, who should read it,

  • how the book changed me and my top three

  • quotes from the book.

  • So this is actually very quick.

  • And this level, level five, is what I regret not doing

  • with everything that I've ever read.

  • Because if you can just summarize a book in three sentences,

  • that's like a really fantastic way

  • of actually engaging with the content.

  • And as someone like Richard Feynman would say,

  • it's a way of actively ensuring

  • that you actually understand the concepts in the book.

  • And so here are some notes that I took

  • on "Show Your Work" by Austin Kleon.

  • The book in three sentences,

  • share your thoughts and your process

  • and your work online for free.

  • You don't need to be an expert to share your work.

  • Beginners can easily help other beginners

  • and three by sharing your work online,

  • you'll attract an audience of people who care

  • about the same stuff as you do,

  • and this can change your life.

  • So that was kind of my three sentence summary of the book.

  • Then I've got impressions where I just

  • sort of write subjectively what I thought about the book.

  • I have who should read it.

  • Occasionally I have how I discovered the book,

  • if I remember how I discovered it,

  • and here's some notes on how the book changed me

  • and my top three quotes.

  • Now the point of this system is that

  • it does take a small amount of time to actually think about,

  • but it's not a large amount of time.

  • And like, I really wish that if I'd done this for every book

  • that I've ever read, I know I'll be like today,

  • I'd be infinitely more knowledgeable

  • about all this stuff than I am

  • just because I just never considered

  • engaging with this stuff.

  • So level five is I think a good sweet spot between

  • the amount of effort it takes to do this,

  • i.e it doesn't take that much effort,

  • but I think it also gives you a lot of value

  • when you can start summarizing books in three sentences.

  • And if we're doing it for fiction,

  • this is what the template looks like for that.

  • So we've got a section about what it's about,

  • how I discovered it, general thoughts and who would like it.

  • So again, all of these templates

  • are linked in the video description,

  • so you can check it out.

  • And if for some reason you don't yet have a Notion account,

  • you should follow the link in the video description

  • and get it for free.

  • Notion is an absolutely amazing app that I've been using

  • since early 2019 and I think it's fair to say

  • that it's probably changed my life.

  • I organize my entire life around it.

  • I organize my whole business.

  • I use it to take notes at medical school

  • and to prepare for a number of my medical exams,

  • used to track my workouts.

  • I use it to write book reviews.

  • I use it to script all my videos and to work with my team.

  • It's just got so many different use cases

  • and I've got tons of videos about Notion

  • that will be linked in a playlist over there.

  • And best of all, it is completely free.

  • You only pay if you're going for one of the team plans

  • or if you need like additional bonus features,

  • but most people can use Notion completely free of charge

  • basically for as long as you want.

  • So hit the link in the video description

  • if you haven't got an ocean account for whatever reason.

  • And if you do, there'll be a link to my kind of book notes,

  • template thingy so you can duplicate that

  • into your own Notion of workspace

  • and then you can start taking notes from books,

  • which will kind of get you to level five.

  • But yeah, thanks Notion for sponsoring this video.

  • Let's not move on to level six.

  • Now this is where we start to get really interesting

  • because level six is the Order of the Phoenix

  • and the only difference between level five and level six

  • is that in level six, you're still doing all of this stuff.

  • You're still writing kind of book in three sentences,

  • the impressions, how it's changed your life.

  • But we also have a section for a summary

  • and notes on the book itself.

  • So what I'm trying to do with all of the books

  • that have particularly resonated with me over the years,

  • books, that I would write five stars

  • or books that I think have changed my life.

  • What I'm doing is I'm going through them again

  • and I'm writing literature notes.

  • I'm sort of creating my own mini summary of the book,

  • but I'm focusing on the points

  • that have particularly resonated with me

  • or points that I found particularly interesting

  • or insightful or surprising.

  • And I think this is just a really great way

  • of engaging with the book, but it does take absolutely ages.

  • So for example, the other day

  • it was one o'clock in the morning and I was in bed

  • and I couldn't sleep.

  • So I got up my iPad pro.

  • I switched everything to dark mode

  • and I had Kindle on one side of the screen

  • and Notion on the other side of the screen.

  • And I was taking literature notes

  • from the "E-Myth Revisited", which is a book

  • about how to kind of build a small successful business.

  • I first read, I think in July, 2019

  • and that book completely blew my mind.

  • And so I was revisiting it and relearning

  • some of the lessons from it.

  • And as I was, as I was doing that,

  • I was taking my literature notes.

  • I was sort of summarizing bits in my own notes.

  • And although it took absolutely ages

  • and I still have finished it, I'm still

  • only halfway through the book,

  • it's actually giving me a lot of new insights

  • because it's so rare to find a book

  • that's genuinely sort of actually life changing.

  • And so when you do like, or now when I do,

  • I'm gonna make a point that I'm gonna write my own summary

  • of this book so that I can really

  • consolidate the points for me.

  • There's a few things to keep in mind about this.

  • So firstly, there's a very good book

  • called "How to Take Smart Notes" bynke Ahrens.

  • And I've actually done my own summary of this.

  • Yeah, here's a summary that I've done

  • using the toggle feature in Notion

  • where I've basically written like a whole lot of stuff

  • and even drawing my own diagrams

  • and tables and things about,

  • oh my goodness, that's quite a lot of stuff here.

  • How many words is this?

  • This summary, plus some of the highlights it's 6,851 words.

  • So I've spent a very long time taking book,

  • taking notes from this meta book

  • called "How to Take Smart Notes",

  • but this is really good.

  • And this book talks about the Zettelkasten method

  • of note taking, which is kind of

  • what inspired this video and sort of one level of this

  • is as you're reading stuff, you're taking literature notes,

  • but the idea of literature notes,

  • like these summaries that we're making for ourselves

  • is that we want to avoid copying and pasting quotes

  • from the book.

  • We wanna actively try and rephrase things in our own words,

  • just to make sure that we understand the concepts

  • and the other benefit of taking her own book notes

  • is that if you are interested in sharing your work online,

  • you can actually publish your book notes.

  • The first person I saw do this was Derek Sivers,

  • who I've been following since 2016

  • and who featured in a deep dive on this channel,

  • very kindly of him.

  • And he's basically been taking these detailed notes

  • on every book that he's read.

  • And he's got like hundreds of these on his website siver.rs.

  • Again, that'll be linked in the video description

  • and also many friend, Nat Eliason

  • who again was featured on the Deep Dive,

  • has this amazing website.

  • His blog generates six figures a year for him in revenue.

  • Maybe even more than that.

  • And a big part of his most popular posts

  • are his summaries notes and reviews

  • from books that he's read.

  • So this is kind of the level where I wanna get to where,

  • you know, in the future, on my website,

  • aliabdaal.com/booknotes,

  • you'll find all of these summaries of books.

  • And I think this is just like an incredible resource.

  • And if anyone's considering starting

  • a personal blog or a website or a YouTube channel,

  • taking notes from books is such a big value add because

  • a lot of people don't have time to read

  • or think they don't have time to read.

  • And there are also so many good books out there

  • that if you can act as the curator,

  • something, someone like Matt or Derek

  • or what I'm trying to do,

  • if you can curate the best books,

  • "Antifragile" by Nassim Taleb, for example,

  • he's got his notes on here,

  • he's got a podcast episode about this.

  • This is such good content.

  • And this is the sort of stuff that really

  • kind of helps you build your own brand

  • as a sharer, as an educator.

  • And it's just a pretty fun thing to do.

  • So this is where I'm kind of aiming with level six,

  • but then we come to level seven,

  • which is Dumbledore himself.

  • And this is where we're really going full ham

  • on these Zettelkasten Method of note taking.

  • This is sort of where I'm hoping to go, eventually.

  • I've only really done it for a handful of books,

  • but every time I've done it,

  • I found the exercise to be quite useful.

  • And the idea behind this is that once we've taken

  • our literature notes about the book,

  • what we're gonna do is we're gonna turn them

  • into permanent notes as in these Zettelkasten Method

  • or an Evergreen Notes as Andy Matuschak,

  • who's this also kind of note taking guru on the internet.

  • That is sort of the vibe.

  • I prefer the phrase Evergreen Notes,

  • because I think it sounds a bit better.

  • And so for example, I have got this database

  • on again on Notion of Evergreen Notes

  • and the idea behind Evergreen Notes is that

  • they're notes on topics that you find interesting

  • or that particularly resonate with you,

  • but they are atomic notes in their own right.

  • Like the note is self contained and very heavily linked

  • to the other notes you've got in your system

  • and the slip box, again, Sönke Ahrens talks about this

  • in "How to Take Smart Notes".

  • This is, I think Zettelkasten translates to slip box.

  • It was like a method that this German,

  • called Lumen used to use back in the day.

  • And he churned out like loads and loads and loads

  • of manuscripts and publications and books

  • because he had the systematic way of taking notes

  • from the stuff that he read.

  • And so, for example, what I've got is

  • I've got these different sections,

  • life happiness, meaning work, reading luck,

  • improvement, relationships, marriage,

  • helping people, decision making, money, lifestyle,

  • writing, et cetera, et cetera.

  • So like all of these are topics that I'm interested in.

  • And as I read stuff in books,

  • articles, podcasts, tweets, whatever,

  • what I'm trying to do slowly, very slowly over time

  • is turn these into Evergreen Notes

  • and then having like this index for Evergreen Notes.

  • So for example, "The 4 important things in life",

  • what's in this one.

  • This is money, love, relationships,

  • mental health, wellbeing, happiness, and physical health.

  • And I found this from a episode

  • of the Samantha Ryan podcast, that Naval was on.

  • And so I turned it into an Evergreen Notes.

  • I linked to the source and Notion now has back links.

  • And so for example, if I want,

  • I can see what links to this page.

  • So the idea money leads to happiness links to this page.

  • So that is related to the note and we can see

  • using the back links, how this all kind of relates together.

  • This system, this kind of level seven,

  • Zettelkasten slip box, Evergreen Notes,

  • Dumbledore note taking, whatever you wanna call the system.

  • This is a little bit niche and I'm not entirely sold

  • on the power of it yet.

  • I can see from reading "How to Take Smart Notes"

  • and from reading the work of other people on the internet

  • who have done this sort of thing,

  • people say it's really useful.

  • Like me personally, I'm very slowly

  • starting to head in this direction,

  • but I don't think I've given it enough time

  • or stuck with it for long enough to actually

  • be able to comment on whether it's actually helped me.

  • It is kind of nice in a way, because it helps you

  • consolidate your thinking on all sorts

  • of different subjects, especially

  • if you have a lot of interests, it can be kind of hard

  • to keep track of all the stuff that you've read,

  • but this is one layer of abstraction above the things

  • that you read, figuring out a way

  • to consolidate the insights from them, for example.

  • So coming full circle, if I were to give advice

  • to my previous self, I would say

  • that it's really, really useful to be

  • at least a level five of the system.

  • It is very, very easy to get to level five.

  • Basically you get to level four

  • by following the magical Insight Logging Framework

  • linked up here, and for level five,

  • all you have to do is you can use my Notion template

  • if you want, but you don't have to.

  • All you have to do is just write a summary of the book

  • in three sentences.

  • Three, because it forces you to be concise

  • and it doesn't take very long.

  • And just write a few words

  • about what you thought about the book.

  • This is the stuff that we used to do

  • when we were in primary school,

  • where teachers would say, write a book review of this,

  • this book that you read.

  • And again, like if I could give a single piece

  • of advice to myself, when I was like 12, I would say,

  • "Look, Ali me.

  • You need to just write summaries in three sentences

  • of all the books that you've read

  • and just write your thoughts on them.

  • Because in 10 years time in 20 years time,

  • you're gonna be so incredibly grateful

  • that you've got this treasure trove of knowledge

  • inside a system other than your brain,

  • because you're a dumb ass and you're gonna forget

  • everything that you read otherwise."

  • If you like this idea and you haven't yet seen the video

  • about the magical Insight Logging Framework

  • with which is this automatic way

  • of capturing highlights from books, articles,

  • podcasts, and tweets, then click the video over here.

  • That will be the video about

  • the magical Insight Logging Framework.

  • Thank you so much for watching.

  • Do check out my Notion template in the video description,

  • and hopefully I'll see you in the next video.

  • Bye bye.

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