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Quotes from the book How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers

How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers

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“One cannot think without writing.” (Luhmann 1992, 53)

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ut most of all, you can write every day in a way that brings your projects forward.

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The quality of a paper and the ease with which it is written depends more than anything on what you have done in writing before you even made a decision on the topi

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In fact, there is no measurable correlation between a high IQ and academic success

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What does make a significant difference along the whole intelligence spectrum is something else: how much self-discipline or self-control one uses to approach the tasks at hand (Duckworth and Seligman, 2005; Tangney, Baumeister, and Boone, 2004).

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Willpower is, as far as we know today, [2] a limited resource that depletes quickly and is also not that much up for improvement over the long term (Baumeister, Bratslavsky, Muraven, and Tice, 1998; Mura

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Luckily, this is not the whole story. We know today that self-control and self-discipline have much more to do with our environment than with ourselves (cf. Thaler, 2015, ch. 2)

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If you can trust the system, you can let go of the attempt to hold everything together in your head and you can start focusing on what is importan

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By breaking down the amorphous task of “writing a paper” into small and clearly separated tasks, you can focus on one thing at a time, complete each in one go and move on to the next one (Chapter 3.1). A good structure enables flow , the state in which you get so completely immersed in your work that you lose track of time and can just keep on going as the work becomes effortless (Csikszentmihalyi, 1975)

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How do you plan for insight, which, by definition, cannot be anticipated? It is a huge misunderstanding that the only alternative to planning is aimless messing around.

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Having read more does not automatically mean having more ideas.

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Good Solutions are Simple – and Unexpected

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There is no need to build a complex system and there is no need to reorganise everything you already have. You can start working and developing ideas immediately by taking smart notes.

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Complexity is an issue, though. Even if you don’t aim to develop a grand theory and just want to keep track of what you read, organise your notes and develop your thoughts, you will have to deal with an increasingly complex body of content, especially because it is not just about collecting thoughts, but about making connections and sparking new ideas. Most people try to reduce complexity by separating what they have into smaller stacks, piles or separate folders. They sort their notes by topics and sub-topics, which makes it look less complex, but quickly becomes very complicated. Plus, it reduces the likelihood of building and finding surprising connections between the notes themselves, which means a trade-off between its usability and usefulness.

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David Allen: Only if you can trust your system, only if you really know that everything will be taken care of, will your brain let go and let you focus on the task at hand.

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While some career-oriented academics try to squeeze as many publications out of one idea as possible, Luhmann seemed to do the opposite. He constantly generated more ideas than he was able to write down. His texts read as if he is trying to squeeze as much insight and as many ideas as possible into one publication

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“I, of course, do not think everything by myself. It happens mainly within the slip-box”

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He not only stressed that he never forced himself to do something he didn’t feel like, he even said: “I only do what is easy. I only write when I immediately know how to do it. If I falter for a moment, I put the matter aside and do something else.” (Luhmann et al., 1987, 154f.) [4]

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believe it. We are still so used to the idea that a great outcome requires great effort that we tend not to believe that a simple change in our work routines could not only make us more productive, but the work also more fu

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If we work in an environment that is flexible enough to accommodate our work rhythm, we don’t need to struggle with resistance. Studies on highly successful people have proven again and again that success is not the result of strong willpower and the ability to overcome resistance, but rather the result of smart working environments that avoid resistance in the first place (cf. Neal et al. 2012; Painter et al. 2002; Hearn et al. 1998). Instead of struggling with adverse dynamics, highly productive people deflect resistance, very much like judo champions. This is not just about having the right mindset, it is also about having the right workflow. It is the way Luhmann and his slip-box worked together that allowed him to move freely and flexibly between different tasks and levels of thinking

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Quote from the book How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers

“One cannot think without writing.” (Luhmann 1992, 53)

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"“To be interesting, be interested,” Dale Carnegie wrote in his 1936 book, “How to Win Friends & Influence People."

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"your room temperature is above average, if you eat right before bed, and if you drink alcohol or caffeine, you can experience restless or hot nights. If you’ve ruled out any other possibilities, then it could be hormonal fluctuations. "

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"Your bedding, mattress, and even the time you eat dinner have an affect on your body temperature as you sleep."

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They also found that the average college student loses 46 minutes of sleep each night due to answering phone calls or checking for messages. Add it all up, and we are all running the risk of a massive sleep debt that is not going to allow our sleeping brain to do its job. Sleep deprivation is leading to less efficient learning, higher emotionality, increased anxiety, and a less efficient brain.

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"Researchers from INSA Lyon, CNRS, and Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1 introduce iText2KG, a zero-shot, topic-independent method for incrementally constructing Knowledge Graphs (KGs) from unstructured data without the need for predefined ontologies or post-processing. This framework consists of four distinct modules:"

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"Popülist demokraside ‘görsellik’ kutsandığı için gösteriş yatırımı ve harcamaları birer propaganda aracı olarak kullanılıyor."

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"Model-based evaluation approaches use smaller models to assess the performance of LLMs, addressing the limitations of traditional methods like BLEU and ROUGE. Techniques such as BERTSCORE and BARTSCORE employ smaller models to compute semantic similarity and evaluate texts from various perspectives"

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"Model ensembling strategies utilize both large and small language models to optimize inference efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Two main approaches are model cascading and model routing. Model cascading sequentially uses models of varying complexity, with smaller models handling simpler queries and larger models addressing more complex tasks. Techniques like AutoMix use self-verification and confidence assessment to determine when to escalate queries. Model routing dynamically directs input to the most appropriate models in a pool. Methods like OrchestraLLM and RouteLLM use efficient routers to select optimal models without accessing their outputs."

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"Methods like Model-oriented Data Selection (MoDS) and the LESS framework demonstrate how SMs can select influential data for LLMs, optimizing the instruction tuning process and achieving strong alignment with fewer examples."

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"Small Models (SMs) are defined relative to larger models, with no fixed parameter threshold. SMs are compared to LLMs across four dimensions: accuracy, generality, efficiency, and interpretability. While LLMs excel in accuracy and generality, SMs offer advantages in efficiency and interpretability. SMs can achieve comparable results through techniques like knowledge distillation and often outperform LLMs in specialized tasks"

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"analysis of HuggingFace downloads which reveals that smaller models, especially BERT-base, remain highly popular in practical settings. This surprising trend highlights the continued relevance of SLMs and raises important questions about their role in the LLM era"

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"Don’t be busy, be effective. Set priorities and stick to them, eliminate unnecessary decisions, guard your time fiercely then delegate and let go. Copy the world’s most successful leaders to find yourself getting more done, with less stress, and more focus on what really matters. Take control, have intention, and do more with your week"

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"Top leaders treat their time as their most valuable asset, and they protect it fiercely. IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad scheduled his day in ten-minute blocks, ensuring every minute was accounted for. This tight control helps him stay focused and avoid the time sinks that can easily derail a busy schedule"