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One of the ways you can deconstruct an argument is being actively attuned to what you're reading. To better remember content, take a blank sheet of paper and write down what you know about that subject. You can write it in bullet points. When you later come back to what you're reading, go to that sheet and skim it - it will prime your brain for what you're going to read.
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SHANE PARRISH:
Shane Parrish is a former Canadian intelligence officer and the founder of Farnam Street, a go-to resource that CEOs, athletes, professional coaches and entrepreneurs rely on to find signal in a world of noise.
Shane's work has been featured in nearly every major publication, including Forbes, Huffington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and most recently, the New York Times.
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TRANSCRIPT:
SHANE PARRISH: I think the physical books just work for me. They work really well for note taking. They work really well for annotation. They give you something tangible. And there's something about it that I can't quite explain, right? Like, you can know something's in a book on the left-hand side of the page, between page 80 and 90. But if you're reading on a Kindle, you can't do that. So reading on a Kindle is great. I use a Kindle for traveling. But the vast majority of the reading I do, I try to do in physical books because I can write about the idea in my own penmanship. I can draw arrows, and pictures, and diagrams, and try to connect to the argument that the author is trying to make.
Because how can I agree or disagree with somebody if I don't understand the fundamental principles of the argument that somebody is trying to make? One of the ways you can deconstruct that is just sort of being actively attuned to what you're reading. I find when I read on the Kindle, I'm not necessarily as actively engaged in the book. But if I'm taking notes and I'm following along with the article, or I'm occasionally underlining a word that I don't even know what it means, and I want to go look it up later. But it means that I'm actively reading, that what I'm paying attention to, which is super important. And also one of the other things that I find easier to do with a physical book, although you can do it with a Kindle book, I call it like the blank sheet. And what we do there is before you read a book, you take a blank sheet of paper, and you write down what you know about that subject.
You can mine map it. You can write it in sort of like bullet points. And then you read maybe a paragraph - or not a paragraph. You read a chapter of that book. And that's all the reading time you have for that day. Well, now you go to that sheet and use a different color pen and you just fill in, like, what gaps did I learn? Did I learn a different terminology for the words? Can I connect it to what I've already read? And then before you pick up the book for the next chapter, you just skim the sheet. And it sort of primes your brain for what you're going to read. And I think that that's a really effective way to sort of not only build on the knowledge you have, but connect what you're reading to the existing knowledge. It's going to show you what you learned while you were reading because it's going to be a very visual distinction.
It's going to be a different color of ink. And I think that that allows you to sort of connect it to the book. And I often do that in the jacket of the book where, if I don't have a physical piece of paper, that's O.K. because I can just do it on the front cover. That is so much harder when you try to translate that to electronic. It's possible. But it's a lot more difficult.
Пікірлер: 44
1. Something to write with a tone in mind 2. Outline 3. Risk - self-exposure, psychological, content
I'm one of those four or five other people.
Great interview, great writer.
Es bueno ver los Simpson para aprender inglés? Dime soy principiante ?
An honest man... some of his harshest critics consider his doubts a weakness... sad.
Tone. Outline. Psychological convictions, so many gems in here.
Honesty and humility... rare for many, but to my mind, unknowing is a kind of higher knowing. I'm pretty sure Bachelard said something similar in his introduction to "The Poetry of Space.
@MikeRoberts1964
6 жыл бұрын
Of course that's your contention ...You're a first year Grad Student.
Most writing advice is garbage. This is by far the best I’ve heard
You sir, are a genius!
With a quill
Them: How do you write? Me: My write hand.
Insightful. Yes, for me tone is much of it.
1:43
You get this when you've written quite a bit, and then you hate what you've written. Still working on not sounding like a proud bastard
I have no clue what is meant when he says "tone" Please ELI5 his definition of "tone"
I hate to be that guy who doesn't know this guy, but who is this?
@EllePlowPlow
10 жыл бұрын
His latest book was Freedom. Wish I could tell you more but it's still in my TBR pile.
@petercraig3745
10 жыл бұрын
He wrote "Freedom" and "The Corrections", the latter was voted by leading book editors, publishers, critics, and writers as the best American novel of the 2000s.
@MikeRoberts1964
9 жыл бұрын
He is quite possibly the most over-rated writer of the last 2 decades, that's who...His only competition for that would be his late good friend David Foster Wallace who did us the favour of ending both his own life and his self-absorbed parade of "Novels".
@MetaSynec
9 жыл бұрын
Mike Roberts What an absolutely horrid remark.
@MikeRoberts1964
9 жыл бұрын
Incongruent I But true
Jonathan Franzen
How do I write? Pretty well.
You okay buddy?
wilies
Like my icon, my bland books are jokes, especially "Dawn of the Hives," but I was proud of that one. Look at it, evil psychotronic people. I have no passion, so my writing is boring. I do it anyway.
hgf
Sounds like he was just talking about Lolita.
not making sense.
THE MAN SPEAKS IN A MOST BORING TONE....AND HE SPEAKS ONLY ABT TONE! IRONY!
@vincentmiller6957
4 жыл бұрын
What is that, monotone? He does sound a little like somebody on marijuana😁.