By chance, he began to contact mind mapping and was determined to change, so he began to learn various methods of taking notes such as mind mapping, but these methods made his thinking more confused. Just like many people's mind map usage now, they are actually copying the version of the book, but they have changed a tool to copy it, and they have not mastered the essentials.
It was not until I came into contact with the note-taking method in the book "The Smart Man's Examination Notebook" that the idea of taking notes became clearer and clearer, and I could easily sum up my own ideas. With the long-term application of notes, Han Qing's communication skills and work efficiency have also been greatly improved, and he feels that the whole person has become smarter.
What is your notebook like?
Open your notebook quickly. If your notebook belongs to one of the above, your ability will be hindered.
Seeing the book "Smart People Use Checked Notebooks", I thought: Why does the author emphasize that smart people use checked notebooks? What's the magic of plaid notebook? Can a checkered notebook really make your mind smarter? How to use a checkered notebook?
The author of the book "Smart People Use Checked Notebooks" is the political history of Gao Qiao. In the book, he shared a point: the checked notebook is just a tool, and the thinking frame is the soul. Tools+thinking framework can really make your mind smarter. The author thinks that intelligence is defined by "information sorting ability". The so-called quick-thinking and smart people are actually people who can sort out and store information in a "framework".
1. Why is it a checkered notebook?
First of all, let's take a look at the characteristics of notebooks that Gao Qiao's political history thinks make the mind smart:
Compared with ordinary horizontal notebook and white notebook, grid notebook has obvious advantages in content presentation, and it is more convenient and easier to adjust text size, balance line spacing and paragraphs, and draw charts. The checked notebook is more conducive to the information arrangement at the tool level.
2. What is the relationship between a checkered notebook and cleverness?
As mentioned earlier, the grid notebook is just a tool, and the thinking frame is the soul. With the framework, no matter how complicated the information and knowledge points are, we can eliminate unnecessary information and knowledge and find out the key points. If there is no framework, if you care about this and that, even if the amount of information and knowledge is less, they will be a mess in your mind.
Frame determines your intelligence.
Organizing the information in the brain with the right framework can make the brain smarter and smarter. For example, a frame, like a bookshelf to organize ideas. If you have a strictly divided bookshelf and organize all the knowledge and information you need according to the framework, you can quickly find the corresponding knowledge and information from it when you need it.
1. First, refine the ideas and conceive the framework with a notebook.
The author takes foreign consultants as an example. According to him, senior consultants are used to writing everything in notebooks and then inputting it into computers. If you haven't seen the essence of the problem clearly, and you haven't figured out the key points, it's futile to start using computers to do more information.
So use a notebook to refine your thinking. The advantage of this is that it is easier to concentrate when writing, to draw and draw, to concentrate and to sort out logic!
Think about when we usually write on the computer, is it particularly easy to visit Taobao and order QQ?
Step 2 write the notebook horizontally
Because people's eyes are arranged horizontally, the horizontal field of vision is wider than the vertical field of vision. The direction of notebook use can change the speed of our understanding of information and affect our study and work efficiency.
3. Title your notes like a newspaper.
The so-called organized notebook is a notebook that can see what is important at a glance. I often find that rereading notes can't find the point!
The solution given by the author is: title.
4. Use the golden rule to partition the notebook.
What is the golden rule? McKinsey notebook of McKinsey Company, Point Sheet used by Accenture Management Consulting Company and Cornell notebook used by famous American universities and scientific research institutions all use a common framework, that is, the golden rule.
The golden rule is to divide the notebook into three parts from left to right and record the notes in the order of fact, explanation and action.
When we take notes at ordinary times, we often stay at:
Fact: Write down what you hear and see on paper.
Therefore, it is necessary for us to carry out secondary processing on the characters.
Interpretation: Reconstruct the material with your own logic and tone.
Action: What is the core point? What is the most useful information?
Through the above exercises, information can become your own knowledge or experience.
5. Draw, draw, draw
When taking notes, it is a good choice to draw pictures to express them intuitively.
At this time, the advantages of grid notebook can be brought into play.
Plaid notebook allows us to draw lines, boxes and other shapes conveniently, and neat drawing can make us feel more fulfilled after writing notes!
6. Prepare 1-2 color marker.
It was only two years ago that I began to take notes with colored pens. The advantages of crayons are obvious: clear notes and vivid pictures! Carrying 1-2 color marker with you can make your notes vivid.
Why do smart people use checkered notebooks? Because the checkered notebook is a good thinking tool.
The same is to take notes. You are carrying information, and the elite are accumulating knowledge. The gap between you is not only a square notebook, but also a way of thinking and consciousness.
Change from buying a checkered notebook to buying a checkered notebook for smart people!