![]() This is passive consumption, I’m listening to this at the gym, and I’m not going to be typing out notes as I work out, so a healthy balance is when I come back, if I remember something, I’ll write it down because something is better than nothing. I then decided to listen to the Audiobook, because although I can use my notes here to remind myself of the 6 principles, it was clear that the author included a lot of interesting case studies, and I wanted to hear those actual examples, so I’ve been listening to this whenever I go to the gym.Īnd this is where I give myself a lot of room for error because as you can see in the Audible section, I let myself write down anything I remember. I decided to take notes on the One-Pager because there are 6 principles that contribute to products and ideas going viral and I definitely want to remember what those are: Huge shoutout to Kajol for recommending me this book, she also has a YouTube channel. Audible Notes Sectionįor the Audible section I’m going to jump to another example: Contagious by Jonah Berger. ![]() It gives me the choice to follow up or not. Of course, I want to state for the record that the book is great, it’s backed up by a lot of scientific research, but as a reader, I would at least like to know if parts of the book were over-exaggerated or things were left out, no matter how small those elements may be. If I had only read the book, I probably would not have gone out of my way to search for “opposing viewpoints” for the book that Bill Gates has endorsed. The extremely interesting thing is, Shortform’s book guide for Why We Sleep brings up scientific findings that go against, a few of the author’s talking points. I first came across this book in Thomas Frank and Ali Abdaal’s videos, and I also know that Bill Gates endorsed this book. Let’s take “Why we sleep” by Matthew Walker as an example. And this is because in my opinion, Shortform’s biggest value add is that their writers pull in relevant research and information that I otherwise would have missed if I had only read the book. If I choose to go with the Shortform guide you’ll notice I added an additional section “Other viewpoints slash further reading”. I usually pick 1 of those 4, but sometimes I mix and match. Or do I want to go through the entire Shortform book guide, listen to the book on Audible, or read through the entire book?.Do I want to stop with the notes I’ve taken so far? Meaning do I think I have the general gist down already?.Now at this point, I usually make 1 of 4 choices: Of course if you choose not to use Shortform you can simply replace this one-pager section with a summary you find online or your current go-to source that helps you determine whether you want to commit to reading a book or not. Within the one-pager notes section, I would usually start taking notes first, then summarize in 1 sentence to make sure I understood the core message, then think of ways I could apply those learnings in my life. Do I want to invest further and take notes of the one-pager?Īs you can hopefully start to see, this is the flexibility that allows me to dial up or down the commitment as I see fit.Do I want to stop with just the impressions? Aka is this book not something I’m looking for right now,.After this I just write my initial impressions from it. It’s usually a short article within itself, and what I like to do is, first read through the entire one-pager without taking any notes. ![]() The one-pager I’m referring to, is actually this 1-page summary that comes with all of Shortform’s book guides. The second part is just for me, since I make videos so feel free to ignore this part.
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