Dan's Brain

The Conversation We Have with Books

Notes

  • the conversation with books happens in different steps and at different times
    • note taking1
      • summarizing
      • outlining
      • rewriting in your own words
    • revisiting the notes2
    • reading other work of the same author
    • reading on the same argument from different sources
    • rereading your notes on the subject in different times

  1. To really digest a work of literature the output you put out from a book must be comparable to the input you are exposed to. ↩︎

  2. Otherwise the knowledge from the book will be lost to memory. ↩︎