We Were Tired of Forgetting The Books We Read — So We Use This System (TPS245)

Asian Efficiency Team

5 years ago

Books are an amazing source of learning and leverage. For little or no money, you can quickly learn what someone else has spent years figuring out, and you can avoid the mistakes that they made.

However, there’s a big difference between READING a book and LEARNING from a book, and more importantly IMPLEMENTING what you’ve learned.

In this podcast, we’ll share our best systems and strategies for reading books and implementing what you’ve read.

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Cheat Sheet:

Why Thanh and Brooks developed this system [3:47]
What books Brooks has been reading [11:30]
The books that Thanh and Brooks have gifted the most [14:15]
Why highlighting alone is not good enough to retain more knowledge from your reading [16:33]
Why Brooks uses mindmaps to organize his takeaways [21:41]
What makes something a “highlight” to Brooks when he’s reading [25:12]
How Thanh implements action items from a book into his life [28:36]
The review process, and how Thanh and Brooks go over their takeaways [33:25]
How his long-term review process helps Brooks “gain interest” on what he got out of his books [38:21]
How Thanh and Brooks use thinking time to get the most out of their new information [43:29]
The key to making your system work, no matter what system you choose [45:06]
What you can do to take action with this system and the books you’re currently reading [45:55]

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