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  • Improvement Pill here, now - I know a lot of people like to talk about things like speed

  • reading.

  • about reading at least one book every single week.

  • But I think what's most important is that you actually remember the lessons that you

  • come across in the books that you read.

  • Because I'm sure something like this has happened to most of us before.

  • We read a book, have a couple of those aha moments, moments where we learn about something

  • that's game changing, where the gears in our head click and we say aha it makes sense,

  • but then a couple of months pass by, and we can't seem to recall a single thing we learned.

  • Or if we do, we only have a vague idea about what it was.

  • I think it's extremely important to be able to go back and relive those aha moments.

  • Because most of the time, it takes a while for these powerful concepts to get drilled

  • into our head.

  • Chances arecoming across it just one time in a book isn't enough.

  • You have to be able to go back and refresh it if you want that wisdom to stay with you

  • for the rest of your life.

  • So today I'm going to show you guys exactly how I do just that.

  • This is how I get the most out of my reading.

  • So first and foremost, I don't really physically read books anymore.

  • I will occasionally when I want to slow down and take my time with a book but more than

  • 90% of the time I choose to listen to audiobooks.

  • And that's because it's just more convenient.

  • See there's always periods of time throughout the daycommuting to work, grocery shopping,

  • working out at the gym, doing chores at home, even while you're eating.

  • Where you're not really doing anything.

  • You're brain is on autopilot and your mind is just wandering - daydreaming about random

  • things.

  • You can't really pull out a physical book and read while you're shopping for groceries.

  • But you could easily listen to something.

  • So I choose to listen to audio books.

  • Another great thing about listening to books is that you can go through a book up to 2-3

  • times faster than you would if you were to physically read it.

  • When you listen to audio-books you can control the speed of which the narrator talks, personally

  • I like to listen to most books at the speed of 50% faster.

  • Sometimes if I feel like a book has a lot of fluff I'll even bump that up to 75%.

  • This means a book that would normally take you 10 hours to read can be finished in half

  • the time or even less.

  • Now some of you might be thinking well Improvement Pillif you're listening to these books

  • that fast won't you accidentally skip some of the valuable information?

  • Well here's where I do things a bit differently.

  • And it's going to address that.

  • So for every single book that I read or listen to – I'll start a text document on the notepad

  • app that comes with my phone.

  • Every single phone nowadays has a basic notepad app.

  • It look something like this.

  • Most of the time when you read a good book you'll come across again what I like to call

  • aha moments.

  • Moments where you feel like you've just learned about something new that's very powerful.

  • Now whenever I come across a moment like this – I will immediately pause the audiobook,

  • open up the notepad app and write down what I just learned.

  • And I try to do it in a way that really captures the idea.

  • Here is an example of what I mean from a book I read pretty recently.

  • Which is sleep smarter by shawn stevenson.

  • As you can see whenever I come across aha moment, I write down which page or timestamp

  • that it's at and I try to convey that idea as best as I can in a very short sentence.

  • That's the part that I've highlighted in red.

  • Then I elaborate on the point.

  • Books tend to back up all of their ideas with many many points.

  • So I'll take the ones that have the most impact.

  • The ones that got my gears to click and gave me that aha moment and I add them into my

  • notes.

  • (you might notice that the example I'm giving you guys right now isn't on a notepad app,

  • this is a word document.

  • And this is because after reading a book, I'll transcribe all of my notes for that book

  • onto a word document.

  • This will refresh everything into my mind once more.

  • And it also allows me to archive all of my notes)

  • Now why is this style of note taking so powerful?

  • Well - as we already know.

  • We tend to forget things pretty easily.

  • Using the example of Sleep Smarter.

  • The book provided me with over 30 ideasstrategies that I could apply to my life to improve my

  • sleep quality.

  • There's no way I'm going to remember all of these things.

  • In fact I've been actively trying to apply what I learned and for every 2-3 things that

  • I manage to add into my life, I find myself having to go back and refresh my memory.

  • To make sure I'm doing everything correctly.

  • And it's a hassle to have to go back and reread an entire chapter over and over again just

  • to refresh my memory.

  • But since I take notes, I can just open up my notepad and get a clear idea of exactly

  • what I need to do next in just a couple of seconds.

  • Now you might be thinking...well if having notes are so important.

  • Why shouldn't I just start reading cliffnotes or listen to summaries of books instead of

  • reading the entire book on my own and making my own notes.

  • I'd save hundreds of hours and get a lot more done right?

  • Well There's actually a huge difference between reading someone elses words and re-reading

  • your own.

  • See everyone has unique ways of thinking, unique choices of words.

  • For example the word happy brings up certain memories for me that are going to be different

  • for whatever they bring up for you.

  • This means everyone is going to have different aha moments when they read a book.

  • I might have gotten an aha moment that really impacts me from a paragraph on page 25 but

  • you might have gotten that same aha moment from a segment on page 37.

  • When you listen to someone else's wordsthe aha moment isn't as powerful.

  • And most of the time you won't even get aha moments from listening to summaries.

  • Because they're describing their aha moment that suits the way they think, not the way

  • you do.

  • On the other hand when you make your own notes.

  • And you reread them you're going to get a crystal clear idea of exactly what you were

  • thinking when you first came across that aha moment.

  • It's going to take you down the same thought process that you initially had.

  • It's basically going to allow you to relive that aha moment.

  • And that's very very powerful.

  • Remember guys reading books is only useful if you get something out of it.

  • When you get those aha moments.

  • But even more important is the fact that these moments of insight stick with you, not just

  • for a day or two after you finish the book.

  • But for years and years.

  • By employing this method I've been able to retain a lot more information because I can

  • easily go back into my notes and refresh it as if I had just read the entire book again.

  • Try it out, and you'll see some of the benefits too.

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  • One of the books that I'm really excited for right now is the laws of human nature by robert

  • greene.

  • He's one of my favorite writers, he's the guy behind the 48 laws of power.

  • It's coming out in just a couple of days so I suggest you guys grab a copy and check it

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Improvement Pill here, now - I know a lot of people like to talk about things like speed

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    Kevin Chang 發佈於 2021 年 01 月 14 日
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