That’s a big struggle for me. When I was learning about Zettelkasten, the idea of immediatly writing in your own words the summary of a chapter feels daunting. What if I use the wrong words and wouldn’t understand later? What I want is to have notes from the book and then use them to write summary maybe in a week after reading a chapter. I can’t just do it immediately. What do you think are some good ways to aproach telling in your own words?
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I had a similar problem, in my experience is a skill that can be acquired rather quickly. I had nice results with SQR3 reading method, roughly like this:
- Skim the material, get the basic idea
- Think of several questions you have for this material, given it’s basic idea
- Read it again, slowly and thoroughly
- Go back to your questions and write down answers for them
Gradually this can get your more comfortable expressing things in your own language.
