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This whole post deeply assumes that the authors experience is universal. My comprehension - and grades - went up when I just stopped taking notes in lecture an
by Fomite 4y ago
This whole post deeply assumes that the authors experience is universal.
My comprehension - and grades - went up when I just stopped taking notes in lecture and listened.
I read books and remember a lot of what is in them.
- EForEndeavour 4y agoI wonder if you might subconsciously have a more active style of listening to a lecture or reading a book, such that you automatically reflect on the content, maybe playing back a compressed summary of every section in your mind. Someone with this approach would get a lot more out of a lecture or a book than someone who zones out or highlights the first sentence of every other paragraph without really engaging mentally. By contrast, it's possible to take notes unproductively: mindlessly transcribing the audio stream can produce a great transcript, but does not promote understanding. It's more effective to take your approach of actually listening, and if you do take notes, to write a compressed summary, or key points of the last few minutes, or rewording key concepts (the "generative" stuff the article mentions).