https://padlet.com/jamesjohnson22/toslry5unrhfq7rh STAE en-us 2021-09-10 20:51:55 UTC 2021-09-10 21:47:00 UTC hello@padlet.com jamesjohnson22 https://padlet.com/jamesjohnson22/toslry5unrhfq7rh/wish/1731873957 For the first video I chose, I chose the video titled "How I take notes from books". This video goes over Thomas Frank's personal ways he takes notes when reading books, and he gave a few helpful tips in the process. He started off with four parts when taking notes in books, step one is read. He made a good point when talking about this step, he stated that if you can't comprehend the book, when you take notes they can turn out very flawed and be destructive later. His second step is to highlight. Highlighting in the book can help you because it marks the important part, so you can very easily find it later. His third step is to record, and when he talked about this he talked about a helpful website he uses which is Roam Research. I personally use Google Docs due to its easy accessibility, but he talked about how he uses what he highlighted to help influence what he writes down when recording. Lastly, he said he "synthesizes". When I first heard this, I was a little confused, but his tips for this were to connect what you just learned to what you already know. He said to "utilize it, wrangle with it... I write my own thoughts (to help understand the point better)"]]> 2021-09-10 21:12:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jamesjohnson22/toslry5unrhfq7rh/wish/1731873957 jamesjohnson22 https://padlet.com/jamesjohnson22/toslry5unrhfq7rh/wish/1731891769 For this next video, I chose "The Best Way to Organize Your Computer Files". I felt like this could help connect and go along with my current theme of organization, and things that can really help you later. His first rule is rather self-explanatory, but he said "every file in your system should be within a folder that represents it". In my opinion, I feel like their isn't much of a reason to even use folders and what not if you aren't using it to help you stay fully organized. Another one of his rules was to keep make a structure so you can easily and quickly find that folder that you need. He stated that you should try and put folders into folders, and think of it as a tree type structure. You can start with broad file names like "School" and then inside of the "School" folder you can have a "Homework" folder, a "Projects" folder, and so on. Lastly, he says that his main point here is that "Your file system should be expandable, it should be flexible, it should maintain it's logic when it does expand"]]> 2021-09-10 21:24:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jamesjohnson22/toslry5unrhfq7rh/wish/1731891769 jamesjohnson22 https://padlet.com/jamesjohnson22/toslry5unrhfq7rh/wish/1731905299 The final video I chose to stick with the current theme of organization and things that can really help you later is "How to Create a Morning Routine". He started out with a good point by saying that when your alarm wakes you up, don't click snooze "if you hit the snooze button in the morning then you are accepting the first thing you do that day is fail". He talked about how this is easy to say, but hard to put in practice. Next he talked about how you should start small and track your progress throughout. When you start small it helps you get into that routine, then you can start progressively making bigger steps, but not to big to ruin your already made progress (he also said that it can take around 66 days for a habit to form). Another point is that you should prove to yourself that it is possible, once you do it multiple times and start proving that you can do it, everything becomes a lot easier. To sum this all up, try and make strides, prove to yourself that you can create a morning routine, and stick to that routine until it becomes a part of your life.]]> 2021-09-10 21:38:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jamesjohnson22/toslry5unrhfq7rh/wish/1731905299 jamesjohnson22 https://padlet.com/jamesjohnson22/toslry5unrhfq7rh/wish/1731909385 This article is from LifeHack.org and they give 11 practical ways to quit procrastinating. I chose this because this in my opinion, is very related to the theme of things that will help you later, and organization. Also, some of the steps relate to the videos I chose specifically, like "break your work into little steps".]]> 2021-09-10 21:43:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jamesjohnson22/toslry5unrhfq7rh/wish/1731909385 jamesjohnson22 https://padlet.com/jamesjohnson22/toslry5unrhfq7rh/wish/1731912863 This article is from LifeHack as well, and goes right along with the theme. This really can connect to the video "How to Create a Morning Routine", because it also shows how you can keep track of your goals and activities throughout your day.]]> 2021-09-10 21:46:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jamesjohnson22/toslry5unrhfq7rh/wish/1731912863