Sivers distills core ideas from books into concise eight-word statements
Derek Sivers · #88 Derek Sivers: Innovation Versus Imitation · Jul 21, 2020 · at 45:59
Entrepreneur Derek Sivers shares his specific note-taking and distillation workflow with Shane Parrish on The Knowledge Project.
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“I underline every surprising or interesting idea that I want to think more about later. And so then when I'm done, I take all of those underlying ideas and I put them into a text file. I usually just kind of put them into my own words. I remove They're unnecessary words. I think I'm more of a harsh editor than most people. So yeah, I chop every unnecessary word. So now I have the core of this idea in eight words.”
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