Too many people requesting how I take notes. So Let me tell you how I take notes.

First and foremost what more important than taking notes in to understand what other person talking with you or lecture you learning.

You are not gonna do speed writing to notes down everything you hear. Only need to pick up what you understand from what you hearing.

I grew up with my grandpa and he teach me the best listening exercise of all time. Thanks Grandpa! You must be smiling from heaven when I am writing this. He teach me how to memorize the sound of lizard 🦎. Yes it’s “အိမ်မြောင် စုပ်ထိုးသံ” .

Have you ever count how many clicking sounds lizard make in a sequence ? According my years of experience 3 to 5 months old lizard make 5 to 7 times. The reason they make these sound is either announcing their territory or calling for mates. The longer the clicking sounds they can make the more sexier they are 😝. Adult lizard can make up to 9 to 15 in a roll.

Enough of lizard research I make. Let’s get back to notes taking. When I can memorize those little sounds in detail, my level of concentration on hearing is improve day by day. So whenever I am in conversation, I pay hyper focus attention to all the sound that person make. Not just their voice, their tone ( shaky or steady ) , their pauses on conversation ( which word they emphasize ), their breaths and deep breaths ( are they tired of talking or just impenitent ) and even the gulps they make during conversation ( it that because of thirsty or excitement ? ).

The question is “is that all necessary ?“. I might say maybe or maybe not. It’s up to you to decide. But I go down to this level of focus every single time. These kind of technique is used by detectives in interrogations with criminals but that’s not mean I am setting my mind as I am talking with criminal. ( Please don’t get me wrong )

Speaking of setting my mind, it is also play major role in listening too. Set you mind to receptive mode. Don’t judge ! You can detect some errors or false in the conversation. Learn from it! Don’t judge!

In that way you can be absorb everything they said like a sponge 🧽. After absorbing, try to summarize as little as you can.

For example :

Question : How to sleep faster?

Answer : According to the research you need to stay away from all kinds of screen before 2 hours of your bed time. Because blue ray emerge from screens can make your more alert and it’s disturb sleep. Dim all the light or switch to warm tone is also helping ease nerves in your brain and telling our body “the sun is set , it’s time to sleep”. Just by apply these two little step you will see significant change. I personally do it all the time set my alarm in 9:00 pm to cut all the screen and dim light. Try it! It’s really helpful .

Notes :

That’s it. You don’t need to write down every single thing to remember. When you see “No screen” you will automatically remember some kind of ray can disturb. And when you see “Set Alarm” you know what to apply.

Taking notes to help you to remember when you see specific words. Not to write short essay on it. You might complain me what if I can’t remember when I see that specific words ? Of course there is still chance you can forget. Read those notes and recall the conversation to remember. That’s why spaced repetition method is very popular to remember what you studied. I won’t be writing so long for that please visit the university of YouTube and make some search.

Remember! This is not the only way you can take notes That’s the way I personally do. I wish you get some ideas and technique on taking notes.

Thanks for reading this post and Thanks grandpa! Now I share your technique to people who want to take audio memory on their brain and take notes from that.

There maybe some grammar errors in my post. So bare me with that. I am not teaching english I am just sharing tips. I type in english because I am suck at myanmar typing. I can’t type as my idea flow. Hope you guys don’t mind.

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