Not as structured, but I use the same method in a more fuzzy way. Especially headings are useful to me. I‘m generally a fan of carefully structured and precisely named texts
Interesting...I always liked to first read the text and then use a process similar to THIEVES (inspired more by Tony Buzan mandmapping exercises) for taking structures notes. Whenever I try skimming before the actual reading I end up simply reading. I definitely should try the structured process once and see what it can bring though...
@@imagomundiful Yes, just skimming also doesn't vwork for me. This is why THIEVES is so helpful. And it really helps me to take more out of the text, because it's easier to put concepts and information into context.
I discovered your videos this morning, and am excited to try the techniques you've described! I never went to university as I took a different path through life to getting my career going, but I feel like I missed out on the "learning how to read" thing that all university students seem to have to know how to do. So now, when reading for interest (and in order to fill my zetttelkasten), I struggle to pick out the important elements of the books. I end up just highlighting everything as everything seems important, which I know then means I've basically highlighted nothing. I think your videos have really helped me identify the core elements from the books that I am reading now, and creates a good summarisation of an idea that enables converting to zettels easier. You've earned yourself a subscriber today! Danke schön!
That's great to hear. Wonderful that it's helping you so much. What you describe is in fact a very common problem with highlighting. That's why I prefer ABC- or CaWa-active. I don't want to shatter your expectation of university students, but I'm afraid that most of them also don't really know how to read. They try to teach that at uni, but it's usually done in a way that's too theoretical and misses the mark. In fact when I started my PhD one of my colleagues asked me whether I'm taking notes while reading. She said you won't believe how many PhD students still only use highlighting for everything.
Do you publish yourself? If yes, do you write in a way that makes your texts accessible by thieves? I understand that it is a general method, but maybe „purpose-buildt“ texts bear advantages.
I'm currently doing my PhD. Right now I'm only publishing scientific papers which are highly standardised in terms of which type of information and thought goes where. I plan to publish other non-fiction writing in the future. From my current experience with THIEVES, I don't think it's necessary to purpose-built texts around THIEVES. It's rather that most texts already put the most essential information in certain places and THIEVES utilises this fact. That's not to say that there aren't other aspects which can help you to better structure your texts to make them easier to understand.
What type of structured skimming do you use?
Not as structured, but I use the same method in a more fuzzy way. Especially headings are useful to me. I‘m generally a fan of carefully structured and precisely named texts
Interesting...I always liked to first read the text and then use a process similar to THIEVES (inspired more by Tony Buzan mandmapping exercises) for taking structures notes. Whenever I try skimming before the actual reading I end up simply reading. I definitely should try the structured process once and see what it can bring though...
@@imagomundiful Yes, just skimming also doesn't vwork for me. This is why THIEVES is so helpful. And it really helps me to take more out of the text, because it's easier to put concepts and information into context.
I discovered your videos this morning, and am excited to try the techniques you've described!
I never went to university as I took a different path through life to getting my career going, but I feel like I missed out on the "learning how to read" thing that all university students seem to have to know how to do. So now, when reading for interest (and in order to fill my zetttelkasten), I struggle to pick out the important elements of the books.
I end up just highlighting everything as everything seems important, which I know then means I've basically highlighted nothing.
I think your videos have really helped me identify the core elements from the books that I am reading now, and creates a good summarisation of an idea that enables converting to zettels easier.
You've earned yourself a subscriber today! Danke schön!
That's great to hear. Wonderful that it's helping you so much.
What you describe is in fact a very common problem with highlighting. That's why I prefer ABC- or CaWa-active.
I don't want to shatter your expectation of university students, but I'm afraid that most of them also don't really know how to read. They try to teach that at uni, but it's usually done in a way that's too theoretical and misses the mark.
In fact when I started my PhD one of my colleagues asked me whether I'm taking notes while reading. She said you won't believe how many PhD students still only use highlighting for everything.
THIEVES-Title, Headings, Introduction, Every first sentence, Visuals and Vocabulary, End of chapter questions, and Summary
I'm testing this Technic with a book that I'm working on.
Good luck! Let me know how it goes.
The "mental drain" clip -- been there, done that!
Great practices for making order out of chaos. Thank you!
Great it was useful to you!
If you want to be creative in a topic, you need to dig deeper.
Exactly!
Another excellent video . . . I so much appreciate your topics . . . keep them coming!
Thank you! Will do!
Thank you for this video! This is a great technique.
Wonderful, that you find it helpful!
Your channel is quite interesting!
Great that you think so!
Do you publish yourself? If yes, do you write in a way that makes your texts accessible by thieves? I understand that it is a general method, but maybe „purpose-buildt“ texts bear advantages.
I'm currently doing my PhD. Right now I'm only publishing scientific papers which are highly standardised in terms of which type of information and thought goes where. I plan to publish other non-fiction writing in the future.
From my current experience with THIEVES, I don't think it's necessary to purpose-built texts around THIEVES. It's rather that most texts already put the most essential information in certain places and THIEVES utilises this fact. That's not to say that there aren't other aspects which can help you to better structure your texts to make them easier to understand.