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Unlocking Note-Taking: My Proven Strategy for Digesting Books (A Hands-On Example)
Elaborating on notes I took from ‘The Science of Storytelling’ by Will Storr
This is a short free course on taking notes around books. It requires time and the willingness to practice the method presented and make it your own. Sit comfortably, choose a book to which you want to apply what you will learn here, and then let me know how it went. Enjoy!
Introduction
Taking notes is an art.
As with any art, there is no single note-taking recipe. Yet, there are techniques to leverage its power.
One of you asked me for a “fully baked practical example” of the technique I described in How I Organize Tons of Notes (It Works Regardless of Digital Technology). This short course is based on an example of taking notes around a book.
Examples must be specific.
So, I describe how I take notes around one of the most brilliant books I’ve ever read: The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better (nonaffiliated link) by Will Storr.
How can we condense those sharp 304 pages into meaningful notes that expand our knowledge? The answer is a 3-word technique…
