Read to Lead by Jeff Brown

Author:Jeff Brown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Business/Leadership;Reading;BUS107000;SEL027000;BUS012000
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2021-07-20T00:00:00+00:00

Don’t be afraid to write in your book. For us, it’d be an honor if you took notes and made comments within these pages as you read this book. Make marks. Highlight sentences. Fold down the top corners of pages (called dog-ears). Jot down notes. Leave your thoughts in the margins. Converse with the book you’re reading.

Not convinced you should write in your book? Reading a library book? No sweat. Feel free to use sticky notes to mark places in your book. If you go this route, consider purchasing a set of multicolor flags you can use to capture different ideas. For example, you can use a blue flag to draw your attention to a quote and a pink flag to remind you of an essential point.

Writing in your book (or using flags) activates your mind, helps you to comprehend what you read, and is a great way to keep track of your ideas, which takes us to our next step.

Step 4: Take Notes

After taking the first three steps, you’ll know the book. But as we mentioned earlier, comprehending what you read is different than retaining what you read. In the next few steps, we’ll walk you through four ways you can better retrieve your insights.

When reading and highlighting what you read, it’s essential to capture these key findings in notes. As with many things in life, there are several equally valuable ways you can take notes.

What works well for us or someone else may not be a good fit for you, and that’s okay. Use what we share here as a starting point.

Keep Notes in Your Books

In the previous step, we suggested keeping notes in your books. Whether you summarize chapters, mention highlights, or rewrite key insights in the book, using the book itself as a notepad is one way to keep your thoughts in one spot.

This is my (Jeff’s) favorite method for notetaking. Almost every book has one or more blank pages near the beginning and also toward the end. The way I keep notes in my books is by creating an index on these blank pages.

When I come across a phrase or concept I want to remember, or something that sparked an idea, I write down the page number in my index and add a brief one-line note about why it matters.

One of the reasons I love this method so much (thank you, Jonathan Milligan, for sharing it with me) is because I never have to remember where my notes are. They’re in the book itself, and I can refer back to them with ease. Talk about a win.

Use Notecards

This is the method I (Jesse) recently started using. As I read a book, I make marks similar to the suggestions we shared above. Afterward, I’ll go back through the book page by page looking for my marks, and then I’ll write down quotes or key insights on index cards. I started doing this after hearing about it from Ryan Holiday.

On each of these index cards, I’ll also

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