Note-taking: A Fundamental Tool for Learning and Personal Growth
As someone who values learning and personal growth, I have been experimenting with a new habit lately: consciously noting down things that I learn. I have come to realize that note-taking is a fundamental tool that can help us reinforce our learning and make positive changes in our lives.
By taking notes, we are essentially signaling to ourselves that we place a high value on remembering something. This is particularly important when it comes to changing major aspects of our lives. Without notes, we may forget what we need to do or lack a clear plan of action.
When it comes to learning, note-taking is an essential skill that cannot be overemphasized. It is virtually impossible to remember everything we read, watch, or listen to without taking notes. In fact, note-taking is often recommended by institutions, both online and physical, as a way of retaining important information.
Even in work meetings, note-taking is an important way to ensure that important details are not forgotten. Minutes of the meeting are often taken to cross-check for future reference and to ensure that all matters are adequately addressed.
For personal growth, note-taking is a valuable tool for tracking progress, setting goals, and reflecting on experiences. For example, I have started taking notes on self-help books that I read so that I don't forget important key points. I also make notes on my thoughts and experiences as a way of building self-awareness.
To round up things, note-taking is an indispensable tool for both learning and personal growth. By making a conscious effort to take notes, we can reinforce our learning, remember important details, and make positive changes in our lives. So the next time you come across something you want to learn or change, make sure to take note!
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Agreed 💯
To avoid forgetting the things to do, I use stick on papers. It help me accomplish the tasks kn time.
Sometimes it happens that we think we have learnt or understand something by heart, but after some time we do forget.
We simply cannot remember everything. If we have written it somewhere, we may access it anytime we want without putting extra pressure on our memory
For someone like me, I forget things very easily... And people around me complain a lot about it. Worse of it all, I forget face of people I get in contact with for a brief moment.
So that's why this note-taking is becoming really important for me.
How can you get the note of it? 😵💫
Unfortunately I can't. 🥲
There is an Indian movie "Gajni". The hero has memory problem.
He takes the photo of the person and writes the detail on its back.
Well, I know we can't do it, else people would be angry
Seems I have watched that movie... My situation is not that critical 😂😂🤣... I still have a good memory 😂
Hehe.
Oh that was a rare case.
The guy just have the memory of 15 minutes. You might have watched
Lolz, finally you agreed you have a good memory 😂. Well I think it's because you don't really have anything important to do with those people sha
Yeah maybe possible.. That is true to some extent.
Yeah, maybe 🙃
This is very true! Note-taking is so important that it helps us remember the information we never wished they are erased so that we can make use of that information later in the future. I love jotting down things I learn because I would want to go back to them and apply what I have learned.
yeah, it serves as a means of documentation in which this knowledge gotten can later be used to further research and acquire new knowledge. I was able to think of this from reading your comment. Truly a princess with the unique trait of brilliancy 😁
anxieties of life causes us to easily forget some of the things we learnt. Therefore, note taking solves the whole issue. It serves as a quick reminder. Thanks for this lovely information
yeah, that's a good point there. Thanks for adding up to my points as well.
Thanks for appreciating my little effort.
Oh, man... This is crucial, especially when you are getting older and tend to forget even more than when you are a teenager... 😃 As I have a son of that age I have noticed how he forgets a lot of things, but that's because of completely different reasons than when we are older... So, taking notes, creating goals, and I'm practicing daily and weekly TO-DO lists! They are lifesavers!
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Exactly, those daily to-do lists are underrated. They help a lot to keep me in check and meet up with things I plan to do. If I try to put a list of activities in my head. The probability that I would forget it is always high which is why the importance of note-taking comes in at this point.
I’m definitely a notes girl. I have a notebook and a pen by every sitting station in my house 😉💙
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The importance of note taking indeed can never be over emphasized. While learning, taking note of important info has helped me alot... even for a students, it's just a secret to grabbing important points in a subject.
While doing my chores or taking a walk, some content might just fly into my mind and I will quickly note it down either in my phone or in a book
At church, social gatherings and offices, note taking has saved the day several times.
It's a unique tool for everyone.
Now I can imagine this scenario happening and Nkem says Ehh! let me quickly go note this down in my notepad before I forget.
How would this world advance if documentation was never a thing?
Smiles 😊
Indeed...I can't imagine a world without documentation. It's a vital aspect in our lives daily.
I dont remember rn but there is even a notepad on steroids that makes you a diagram of your notes Obsidian I think it is, I use notepad++ because it keeps things in cache and sometimes end up with more than 20 tabs, our brains is a storage device with tons of space but some data gets compress and the key is a simple note to decompress a hole lot of data, thx for sharing ✌️
seriously... Notepad on steroids... it must have really cool features... you think I should check out Obsidian?