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Around you, there may be some highly efficient people. You may wonder how they manage to write new articles, create new courses, or even publish new books when they are so busy with work. You probably guess that they stay up all night and write like a machine in the wee hours.
In fact, everyone has 24 hours a day. Relying on reducing sleep and leisure time to “hustle” is not a viable long-term solution. The difference between you and highly efficient people may not lie in sleep duration, but rather in the different understanding of the entire knowledge output process.
In different stages of knowledge production, we actually have vastly different goals and working paces.
For example, in the collection stage, the key is to “hook” the content so that your ideas do not dissipate and valuable clues are not lost. Whether the hooking action looks good or not does not really matter. Just like when you were taking lecture notes in middle school, you did not have to use a neat standard script to write everything. The “cursive” writing may look very messy, but as long as you can understand it yourself, it is fine.
I say “understand” because, in the next stage, you need to organize the content.
Only organized content can be useful to you. Otherwise, when you need to use the materials, you either cannot find them at all, or you have to heavily rely on direct quotations to state “so and so said this and that”, which, while can be used in writing to some extent, should not be everywhere in the entire text. That means a lot of what others have discussed has not really been incorporated into your own knowledge system, still floating around unintegrated.
The goals and requirements of the organization stage are completely different from those of the collection stage. At this point, what you need to pay attention to is no longer speed, but the effect of organization. You need to build…