How to Simplify Information You Learn

There is def­i­nitely no short­age of infor­ma­tion to go around. Whether it’s bad or good. But it’s the good infor­ma­tion that we like. But some­times there is a ton of good infor­ma­tion in one source.

There are some awe­some ebooks and books from the likes of Ann Sieg, Mike Dil­lard, Joe Rob­son or Bob Bly. These peo­ple pro­vide some excel­lent infor­ma­tion. And a lot of it too. Read­ing these can get a bit over­whelm­ing to try and soak in the whole process. Here’s a tip to help absorb and put that info to use.

It’s a bit sim­i­lar to tak­ing notes, but a bit more orga­nized. Write down key notes from the book, in order of the process you use them. Usu­ally when you read some­thing, all you need a small reminder of that par­tic­u­lar part and it will all come back to you.

In other words, make an shorter ver­sion or out­line of the book and keep it handy when you set down to put it to use. This will save you from have to thumb through the book itself and keeps things a bit more com­pact and eas­ier to find.

Doing this will lay­out a sim­ple plan for you fol­low for the process. This will make it much more focused and eas­ier to use. Mak­ing a plan like this will help in any of your ventures.

So the idea is to read through it once, just to soak it all in. Then go through it again, jot­ting down notes. Take your notes and orga­nize them into an out­line or plan of what you want to do with this infor­ma­tion. Not only is this more per­sonal for you, it will make things much eas­ier when you put it into action.

What other ways have you found use­ful to help you put into action what you learned?

~Chris

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