The mind is geared up to visual images, so that you remember more easily when a pattern impinges on your brain. That is why it is important to make your notes look interesting and individualistic, so that every pages is not just a block of text in your mind. Use creative pattern note taking, at least initially.
A. Advantage Of Creative Patterns
Central idea is clear
Relative importance is clear
Links are clear
Helps recall:
relation of ideas
forms a pattern—helps memory.
Easy to add to
Helps make connections
Improves critical faculties.
B. Method
Final pattern emerges at the end:
might look untidy
content not appearance is important
can re-draw if necessary.
Print in lower case and capitals—clearer
Link with labelled lines according to relations of ideas
Create freely for spontaneity—not hesitantly:
try not to hover over the paper
don’t try too hard to structure artificially—natural flow of ideas
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Now, mankind, the new intelligent lifeform, breeds the few species at the expense of the many. Then, it was the intelligent dinosaur. Genetic variation was narrowed by breeding and environmental destruction until it virtually did not exist.
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Carl Sagan points out that many times in human history a document, of dubious provenance, suddenly appears with information of great import which supports those who have made the discovery. When possible, investigation often proves the document a hoax. An example is Deuteronomy, a lost book of sacred law, conveniently discovered hidden in the temple in Jerusalem by king Josiah, the bible tells us, just when he was trying to reform the Judahite cult. The chance discovery of the long lost holy book just happened to confirm Josiah’s reforms!
The mind is geared up to visual images, so that you remember more easily when a pattern impinges on your brain. That is why it is important to make your notes look interesting and individualistic, so that every pages is not just a block of text in your mind. Use creative pattern note taking, at least initially.
