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#88 Derek Sivers: Innovation Versus Imitation

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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How Do You Read a Book?

I don't skim. Whenever it's like reading time, i try to slow down my internal clock just o focus. And most importantly, which we can really nert out on if you want, is i underline every surprise nor interesting idea that i want to think more about later. When i'm done, i take all those underline ideas and i put them into a text file. I remove they're unnecessary words. So now i have the core of this idea in eight words. Then later yet, i reflect on these ideas. That's why i saved them. I actually don't care about the book. I just want the interesting ideas inside so that i can reflect on them...

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