Why is it helpful to write out quotes from the books and how to do it right
Forming Books / / December 19, 2019
If you regularly write interesting ideas, quotes and observations, a few years you will gather its own book of wisdom, to which you can ask for help in any situation.
People for many centuries subscribed wise quote. A recording of such shapes known as Mark Avrely, Petrarch, Thomas Jefferson, Napoleon, have long been known to the public. Of our contemporaries, it is worth mentioning Bill Gates, who leads notes about favorite books in his blog The Gates Notes.
SenecaCatch should not be old or philosophers invented words or bad metaphors and figures of speech, and useful guidance and noble, courageous statements that can be immediately put into actuality.
How do you do it right? Here are some useful tips that can be useful to you.
1. Read about everything and be open - and is the most interesting.
2. Please flag when reading anything that catches your attention: separate phrases, whole paragraphs, interesting stories. Folded over the edges of pages, star some places to which you want to return, pencil or highlighter.
3. Make notes in the margin during reading time. This kind of conversation with the author and the book is called misfits. Do not be afraid to criticize, question and marvel, record everything that comes to your mind.
4. Write out a wise idea, but not the facts. The essence of these statements is not to collect information, and in the accumulation of tips that will be able to maintain or inspire you in different situations.
5. When you have finished reading the book, put it for about a week. Give information stand in your head. Then check out all the marked place or write in the margins, and transfer them to your notebook.
6. Take notes on paper. Of course, easier to store your favorite quotes on your computer or in the app, but easier does not mean better.
When we spend energy trying to rewrite the words on paper, we are more likely to izvlechom from them.
Long passages can be typed on the computer and printed out.
7. If you do not like the idea of a notebook, you can use a small cardboard cards. Written on them and spoon the quotes by categories.
8. Do not worry because the organization of their records, at least initially. Write out what is important to you, and themes over time, the tread itself.
9. Do not accumulate a lot of books. Try to write your favorite places in a week after reading. If you typed a mountain of books with notes, quotes an extract become a tedious obligation, from which you want to give up.
10. Write out not only quotations from books, but from conversations and phrases, movies, your own thoughts and observations.
11. Use recorded in life. Even if you are not a journalist and not a writer, you're writing messages, notes, greetings, gives advice, chat, comfort relatives. All this is an excellent opportunity to apply the wise thoughts, who met you while reading.
12. Start right now. Do not put it off until later, saying that you do not have time.