2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44
If you regularly write out interesting ideas, quotes and observations, over the years you will have collected your own book of wisdom, which you can turn to for help in any situation.
People have written wise quotes for centuries. And the records of such famous figures as Marcus Aurelius, Petrarch, Thomas Jefferson, Napoleon, have long been in the public domain. Among our contemporaries, it is worth mentioning Bill Gates, who keeps notes on favorite books on his blog The Gates Notes.
What should be caught is not old words or words invented by philosophers or unsuccessful metaphors and figures of speech, but useful instructions and noble, courageous statements that can immediately be translated into reality.
Seneca
How do you do it right? Here are some helpful tips that you might find useful.
1. Read about everything in the world and be open - this is how the most interesting things are found.
2. When reading, mark everything that attracts your attention: individual phrases, entire paragraphs, interesting stories. Fold the edges of the pages, mark individual places you want to return to with a pencil or highlighters.
3. Take notes in the margins as you read. This kind of conversation with the author and with the book is called marginals. Do not be afraid to criticize, doubt and admire, write down everything that comes to your mind.
4. Write out wise thoughts, not facts. The essence of these extracts is not in collecting information, but in the accumulation of advice that can support or inspire you in different life situations.
5. When you finish reading the book, put it aside for about a week. Let the information settle in your head. Then look at all the marked places or entries in the margins and transfer them to your notebook.
6. Take notes on paper. Sure, it's easier to store your favorite quotes on your computer or in an app, but simpler doesn't mean better.
When we expend energy copying words onto paper, we are more likely to benefit from them.
Long passages can be typed on a computer and printed.
7. If you don't like the idea of a notebook, you can use small cardboard cards. Write quotes on them and categorize them.
8. Don't worry about organizing your notes, at least at first. Write out what is important to you, and the topics will emerge over time.
9. Don't accumulate many books. Try to write down the passages you like a week after reading. If you have a mountain of bookmarked books, quoting becomes a tedious task that you will want to give up.
10. Write out not only quotes from books, but also phrases from conversations, films, your own thoughts and observations.
11. Apply what is written in life. Even if you are not a journalist or a writer, you write messages, notes, congratulations, give advice, communicate, console your loved ones. These are all great opportunities to apply the wise thoughts that come across to you while reading.
12. Get started now. Don't put it off by saying you don't have time.
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