I want to suggest an alternative to all the approaches above: what you read is good and useful and very important, you’re just reading it at the wrong time. And many people become “infovores,” force-feeding themselves endless books, articles, and courses, in the hope that something will stick. Others decide it’s just a problem of remembering everything they read, and invest in fancy memorization techniques. ![]() Some give up, labeling all “self-help” books a waste of time. But then the everyday demands of life come rushing back, and you forget what motivated you in the first place.Īt this point, people take different paths. You may try to change the way you eat, exercise, communicate, or work, trusting in the power of habits. You may try to apply the science-based methods the book recommends, only to realize it’s not quite as clear-cut as you thought. You finish the book with a feeling of triumph that you’ve gained a valuable body of knowledge. ![]() You know what I mean: you read a book, investing hours of mental labor in understanding the ideas it presents. What is difficult is not transferring content from place to place, but transferring it through time. We know how to copy and paste text, save an image from a webpage, archive an email attachment, or import a video file. It’s even easier to get content that is already digital from one app to another. Getting this content from the outside world into the digital world is trivial. We know how to snap a picture, type out some notes, record a video, or scan a document. Modern digital tools make it easy to “capture” information from a wide variety of sources. ![]() Progressive Summarization II: Examples and Metaphors > Series Navigation: Progressive Summarization
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