441: The 4 Key Components to Taking Smart Notes
Read to Lead Podcast
Jeff Brown
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
When it comes to effective note-taking—or what I like to call note-making—most of us have never been properly trained. In today’s episode, I walk through the four key components you need to understand in order to turn your useless notes of the past into your smart notes of the future. Simply put… If you want […]
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Read to Lead podcast, episode 441. |
| 0:12.9 | Hi, I'm Stephen M. R. Covey, the author of the New York Times and number one Wall Street |
| 0:17.5 | Journal bestselling book, The Speed of Trust, the one thing that changes everything. |
| 0:25.0 | Shift your professional growth into high gear every time you listen to this. It's the read-delead podcast with my friend Jeff Brown. It would be impossible for me to estimate the amount |
| 0:31.7 | of time and number of books I've read, webinars I've joined, documentaries I've watched, and the notes I've taken about them |
| 0:38.9 | that went absolutely nowhere. If that hit you right between the eyes, then today's episode is for you. |
| 0:45.4 | Hi, I'm Jeff Brown, and this is the Read to Lead podcast. It's the podcast that's dedicated |
| 0:49.7 | to your personal and professional growth. I believe that intentional and consistent reading is key to success |
| 0:55.9 | in business and in life. And that's why I created the Read to Lead podcast. Typically, we have a |
| 1:01.4 | new author we welcome on each week to talk about their latest book. We're detouring from that |
| 1:06.2 | today. It's a solo episode as I unpack the four key components to taking smarter notes. |
| 1:13.4 | The four aspects of the process you need to understand for your notes on all the content you consume, |
| 1:18.8 | whether books or podcasts or videos, say TED Talks, articles on the web, |
| 1:23.3 | to become things that serve you. |
| 1:25.6 | If you're taking notes on this stuff and then not using the |
| 1:29.1 | notes in some way to create writing of some kind or presentation or to use at work in a meeting |
| 1:36.9 | and conversation, why are you consuming the content? Oftentimes I find that people consume |
| 1:42.0 | this content and maybe take some notes and then put them |
| 1:44.4 | away and think that just because they took notes and they listened or watched or read whatever |
| 1:49.7 | that thing was, that they now know what they need to know until that same topic becomes |
| 1:56.0 | a part of a discussion at some future point. And then you find yourself trying to talk about it |
| 2:00.3 | intelligently based on that book or whatever you read three weeks ago. And then you find yourself trying to talk about it intelligently based on |
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