![]() ![]() ![]() You should try as quickly as possible to get a sense of the overall structure of what you’ll be listening to. Start asking questions - By having questions in mind while listening, you’ll be able to pull out answers.For listening, you take notes while listening (or as soon as you can after if you can’t do it during for whatever reason) and then again to elaborate on the points that you have. For books it’d be while reading and then reviewing things after reading to elaborate on things. ![]() Start writing things down - The steps for listening follow the steps Adler explains in How to Read a Book.If I can’t do that then how can I expect to remember any specific takeaways. The next day I’ll sometimes find it difficult even thinking of what podcast episodes I listened to the day before. I’m often listening to things with retention in mind. I spend a good amount of time each day listening to audiobooks and podcasts. The good listener, like the good reader, is a demanding listener, one who keeps awake while listening by having in mind the questions to be asked about the speech being listened to. Passivity in reading, which really renders the process null and void, consists in using one’s eyes to see the words, but not using one’s mind to understand what they mean. A demanding reader is one who stays awake while reading, and does so by asking questions as he reads. The essence of being a good reader is to be a demanding reader. Mortimer Jerome Adler explains how to get the most out of speeches and lectures in How to Speak How to Listen: ![]()
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