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Distillment

Notes

Distilling means to separate the Noise from the core essence of something. To be aware of the distinction between form vs essence. By removing the noise, we almost always receive a smaller idea, which would also make it easier to understand, and to utilize it in other cases medium independent.

To distill an idea involves the following steps:

  1. Identification - Identify the core message / idea within the content
  2. isolation - Isolate the idea from the rest of the text, meaning that you need to add/subtract parts of that idea in order to make it a standalone idea, without needing to refer to the original text in order to understand it. less is more
  3. Process - Write the idea in your own words, make it more approachable to you. Writing

Distillment requires often a combination of the Executive Attention Network and our downtime brain. The first allows us to understand the idea, to criticize it, while the second allows to make it more abstract, to see "the soul" of the idea.

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