You Have to Engage With Information if You Want Results
Metadata
- Author: Sarah M. Chappell
- Full Title: You Have to Engage With Information if You Want Results
- Category:articles
- Summary: To get useful results from your research, it’s essential to actively engage with the information you’ve collected. This means processing the material by highlighting, taking notes, and connecting ideas, rather than just passively consuming content. Using tools like Readwise can help you organize and access your highlights, making your research more effective.
- URL: https://sarahmchappell.substack.com/p/you-have-to-engage-with-information-if-you-want-results
Highlights
- capture is not the same as process. Process is also not the same as read, or consume. (View Highlight)
- for research, we are processing with a goal: to secure information and develop new ideas towards some future production. (View Highlight)
- There are two primary goals for the processing endeavor:
- Save information and quotes. (View Highlight)
- Turn on the ol’ ideation machine. (View Highlight)
- Highlights should be high-value, that is not something you can easily Google or find in a dictionary. (View Highlight)