{"id":473,"date":"2011-01-14T09:36:38","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T17:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scotthyoung.com\/members\/?p=473"},"modified":"2011-01-14T09:36:38","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T17:36:38","slug":"ass-kicking-email-know-the-big-picture-to-get-the-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/members\/?p=473","title":{"rendered":"Ass-Kicking Email – Know the Big Picture to “Get” the Details"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey,<\/p>\n

In this email:<\/p>\n

1. I discuss the implementation guide for Notes Compression
\n2. Why “Big Picture” Thinking is Needed to Understand the Details<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Notes Compression<\/p>\n

The guides this month have been about preparing for exams. Earlier I
\ntold you about the Study Dissection method and today I’m sending you
\nanother “studying” tool, Notes Compression.<\/p>\n

Notes compression is fairly simple to understand, the idea is that
\nyou want to have a resource where everything there is to know in
\nyour course is condensed into just a page or two of notes.<\/p>\n

Sounds impossible, right? Some courses have hundreds of pages of
\ncomplex theory to understand.<\/p>\n

However, this extreme reduction technique forces you to simplify,
\nmake broader connections throughout the subject AND catches errors
\nof missing memory, allowing you to brush up on forgotten ideas
\nbefore a test.<\/p>\n

I wouldn’t say notes compression can be used exclusively to prepare
\nfor all exams, however it is probably where I spend most of my
\ntime in actual preparation.<\/p>\n

You can download this guide by going to the CONTENT section under
\nMONTH 5:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/scotthyoung.com\/members\/?page_id=42<\/a><\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Why you can’t know the details if you miss the “big picture”<\/p>\n

Related to the idea of Notes Compression is the importance of
\nknowing the big picture. This is the broader view of how the
\nmaterial you’re learning in a course applies in life, why it matters
\nand what the overlying trends are.<\/p>\n

I’m a big believer that if you don’t know the big picture, it is
\ndifficult to remember all the small details.<\/p>\n

Take a detail-intensive subject, such as law. Clearly the details
\nare important. You need to know cases, principles and often with
\nverbatim precision.<\/p>\n

However, if you can’t articulate briefly what the main themes are,
\nwhat its application is, or why it is important, all the details
\nare arbitrary and random. There is no forest that all the trees
\nfit into, so you’re forced to memorize the position of each tree.<\/p>\n

The opposite is also true. If you spend some time working on the
\nbig picture–seeing how everything is related and what the major
\nprinciples are–then you can more easily grasp the details.<\/p>\n

This doesn’t remove the burden of remembering what the ratio of
\na particular case, or the Latin name for a particular principle.
\nYou still need to learn the details. However that becomes much
\neasier when you know where they are supposed to fit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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