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Highlights

  • concepts conceptual note-taking encourages this by promoting active learning during a lecture making use of your old notes and linking things in a way that makes sense to you not which necessarily makes sense to the professor (View Highlight)
  • with sequential notes you’re wasting time copying down information when you could be learning it you’re forcing your mind to adapt to the way the teacher presents the information and you’re focusing on the same connections as everybody else in the world which is the fastest way to never have an original thought (View Highlight)
  • by not keeping your old notes relevant you’re throwing away years of your life that you spent learning the fundamentals you’re making it harder to learn new stuff and you’re building a skyscraper of knowledge on a foundation of toothpicks (View Highlight)