Learning without taking notes is wasting your time.

Ty Thomas
4 min readNov 11, 2020

It is easy to sit back and just absorb the information flowing from the book, podcast, article, or video that you are consuming. It feels natural. You are able to enjoy yourself and maybe even feel “in the flow” of the moment. But, this method of learning is wrong, and I am as guilty of it as anyone!

I want you to think for a moment: how much of the information that you have read or listened to, in the past 24 hours, is available for you to recall at this moment? Do you feel as though you are retaining all of the valuable data that comes from…

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Ty Thomas

A graduate student, a social media marketer, a personal trainer, an aspiring blogger, but most importantly: a life-long learner. www.tylerthomas.me