How to write lecture notes and experience articles? Prepare yourself a reflection memo first

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I had the honor to participate in the “2018 Bloggers Christmas Party” the night before yesterday. From the sharing of bloggers I got a lot of inspiration from it, so yesterday I published two articles about my listening experience, namely “[Learning from the French Masters, 10 Mental Techniques Now Learned and Now Selling]” by Yu Weichang(https://www.cont enthacker.today/2018/12/10-ways-to-build-a-powerful-personal-brand.html)” and Li Baifeng’s “Bloggers should make good use of their advantages and transform from text creators to spoken language creators”.

It was a rare opportunity to hear the speeches of these two speakers at the same time, and the topics they shared also interested me, so I urged myself to quickly write down my experience of listening to the lectures.

As a result, early this morning, a classmate from my past copywriting class asked me this question:

I couldn’t help but ask the teacher first. Like the teacher writing down his experience of listening to the speech, is there a recording? Or do you just write notes and sort them out at home? Does the teacher’s structure include: 1. Introduce the speaker first, 2. Impressive part of the speech, 3. Practical part, 4. Reconnect with yourself?

Well, this question is quite practical, so I decided to write an article to talk about how to organize the lecture notes and experiences?

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In fact, whether we are listening to a speech or doing an interview, we may not have the opportunity to record it (the real situation is that even if we record it, we may not listen to it again after we go back—to tell you secretly here, looking back on my own interview career, although I have gone through hundreds of interviews with celebrities and entrepreneurs, most of them will record it for safety reasons, but afterwards I only rely on notes to organize and write articles, and almost never deliberately listen to the recording file…). Therefore, the best thing to do is to write down the key points while listening to the lecture or interview, or only transcribe the parts that you find profound, confusing or interesting.

Usually I will prepare a small notebook (why not a larger notebook? This is because some venues do not provide tables, so I can only record by hand or on my lap) to record the parts that interest me or that I think are important. The point of taking notes is not to record all the important points in detail, but to be able to understand the speaker’s thinking.

Just like the well-known Japanese book critic Eiji Doi in “First-class people read, where do they draw the line?” : Deep Thinking Techniques for Elite Reading” mentioned in the book that you should draw lines on your own “[content you don’t agree with or don’t understand](h ttps://medium.com/@raphee121/%E8%AE%80%E6%9B%B8%E7%AD%86%E8%A8%98-%E4%B8%80%E6%B5%81%E7%9A%84%E4 %BA%BA%E8%AE%80%E6%9B%B8%E9%83%BD%E5%9C%A8%E9%82%A3%E8%A3%A1%E7%95%AB%E7%B7%9A-f87c7ff992b4)” is correct. In other words, in addition to strengthening the “known” through reading, we also need to absorb the “unknown” part.

──This is true for reading, why not also for listening?

If reading is to draw a line for a new future from numerous words, then I think the key point of listening is to find the antenna that can connect and dialogue with the speaker.

Therefore, when I listen to lectures or interviews, I focus on absorbing the “unknown”, “interesting” or “incomprehensible” parts, and grasp the overall situation by sorting out the context of the speaker or interviewee’s speech. In addition, since we usually cannot take too careful notes when listening to lectures, we only need to write down the key points, difficult points or practical points; of course, it would be better if it can be supplemented by actual cases.

Just like the advice given by Teacher Sun Ruisui, if you can make good use of “Reflection Memo”, it is the best method of self-study. Several important contents of Memo For Self-Reflection include:

2. What is the main problematic awareness (problematic) of this speaker (author)?

3. What concepts or frameworks did the speaker use to answer the questions he raised?

4. Does the speaker have a main perspective? Opinion? Argument? Position? Or other relevant arguments and quotations?

5. What vivid examples or cases did he use to illustrate his point of view? Or support his own position? to increase persuasiveness.

6. What new vision or problemmatic awareness did the author’s speech help me expand? Or, how is his way of asking questions different from mine? Why is it different? What more do I know? What does it have to do with what I originally thought? (What’s new to me? – find my own relevance!)

Based on my own writing “[Yu Wei talks about personal brand: learn from foreign masters, 10 ways to learn and sell now](https://www.contenthacker.today/2018/12/10-ways-to-build-a-powerful-personal-brand.ht Take the article “ml)” as an example. Since [Yu Weichang] (https://www.facebook.com/wendellyu) is a senior blogger and an expert in building brand image, he was able to easily quote from many sources in this short lecture, and easily picked up the specific practices of many foreign experts he was involved in when running personal brands.

Since I myself also offer courses related to “Personal Branding”, in addition to writing down the ten tips he shared, I will also listen carefully to see if these methods are consistent with my own experience. Which moves have I already practiced? Even resonate? And what parts are there that I haven’t heard of in the past, or haven’t worked hard enough on?

Of course, the speaker’s own characteristics or experience are also what I pay special attention to. Just like when I worked in the media in the past, I would also do enough homework on the interviewees in advance to understand their background, expertise and personality traits, which will naturally help me write exclusive interview articles from different perspectives.

Since Brother Chang himself is a corporate lecturer, he sang and sang well in just about ten minutes. He not only talked about the concept of managing a personal brand, but also gave several vivid examples. Through his profound and simple sharing, it not only increased the persuasiveness of his speech, but also made people deeply feel the importance of building a personal brand. Naturally, my lecture notes do not need to be typed verbatim. Instead, I extract the real key points and connect them with my own experiences and thoughts.

I think that a lecture note or article of experience written with such a mentality will be helpful to readers! After all, the original intention of writing lecture notes or experience articles is to learn.

─You must know that it is not very meaningful to just record what others have said. Only after understanding and thinking can you express your own opinions. In this way, this lecture note or experience article will have meaning and life.

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Further reading

• Make good use of curiosity, curiosity and empathy to write eye-catching speeches and activity records

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