- 📰 How to Understand Things/📰 The Rage of Research
- But what exactly is X? What is it?
- Why must X be true?
- Do I really believe this to be true, to the point that I'd bet large money on it?
- 📀 Focusing Your Unconscious Mind- Learn Hard Concepts Intuitively (And Forever) - YouTube (where this list comes from)
- 📰 Ask yourself dumb questions – and answer them!
- what if you delete a hypothesis?
- how can we prove this in a stronger way? (reformulate)
- how can we confirm this in a different way?
- what is implied?
- ◊ Safety Netting
- have a pre-defined set of questions to answer for every larger source or topic
- what are we talking about?
- why is this important?
- (How important is this?)
- What does this enable to do?
- What does this not enable?
- Where can I find further knowledge?
- Who are the experts?
- compass method
- North: where does the note come from (the parent note)
- West: what's similar
- East: what's opposed
- similar to what if I'm wrong
- South: where does it lead
- some more ideas from 2017 📖 How To Take Smart Notes:
- How does this fact fit into my idea of …?
- How can this phenomenon be explained by that theory?
- Are these two ideas contradictory or do they complement each other?
- Isn’t this argument similar to that one?
- Haven’t I heard this before?
- And above all: What does x mean for y?
- One possibility to deal with this tendency is to ask counterfactual questions, like “what if?” (Markman, Lindberg, Kray and Galinsky, 2007).
- “What is interesting about this?”
- my own:
- which questions does this help answer?
- always look for applications (similar, but not the same)
- which questions does this help answer?