The Power of Note Making and Making Connections Between Ideas

The key insight from the snip is that making connections between ideas is crucial for effective note-taking and knowledge retention. The metaphor of Mad Libs is used to explain how notes are like a network, allowing one to capture and link ideas, just like the nodes in the brain. Making connections between notes allows for the retracing of thought processes and sparks of ideas, preventing the confusion of disconnected thoughts. Creating connected notes, or an 'idea of verse', can help to overcome information overwhelm and serve as a form of self-therapy for grounding and sense-making. Although the immediate output may not be obvious, the practice leads to a mind that is more capable of handling future tasks.