I recently finished reading the book How to take Smart Notes by Sonke Ahrens. The book proposes reading with pen in hand which I found to be extremely time consuming.
But then I realized the important distinction between Time consuming and Time Wasting activities.
Reading with Pen in hand is extremely time consuming I had to work on this book for months. But not reading with pen in hands is time wasting I hardly remember anything from Sapiens or Thinking Fast and Slow that I read last year.
We tend to avoid time consuming activities, but happily go about doing time wasting activities. This is a kind of a unconscious bias that we need to be mindful about.
Trying to work on a detailed summary of the book, but that is a time consuming activity as well 🙂