Creative Thinkers are avid Note-takers

The founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, once said that “creative thinkers are avid note takers”.
The common trait among the world’s most successful people is the art of effective note taking. There are several reasons why taking written notes is important:
Keeps you alert: Note-taking keeps your body active and involved and helps you avoid feelings of drowsiness or distraction.
Engages your mind: Listening carefully and deciding what to include in notes keeps your mind actively involved with what you hear.
Creates a condensed record for study: A set of concise, well-organized notes from each session helps you make Mom (minutes of the meeting) easily, gives you the content to review and revise.
Boosts your understanding: By making notes, you force yourself to construct a conceptual mental representation of the ideas you are grappling with. It’s the process of writing notes, and not the notes themselves, that helps you gain command of new concepts.
Aids your memory: You don’t necessarily need to re-read an entire book or re-watch a whole lecture to remember ideas over the long-term. Instead, you can revisit your notes to refresh the ideas that you’ve encountered.
Repository of your thinking: Even if you don’t make the effort to commit everything to your long term memory, your notes are still useful as your personal reference library, an external memory aid.
Note taking relieves stress and helps keep your schedule intact: When your mind’s swarming with loose ends to tie, writing them down helps you reduce your cluttered thoughts, which reduces stress. It helps you focus on the task at hand.
Note taking improves the quality of everything you do: Whether you’re putting together a report for work or tweaking a recipe for your next social gathering, taking notes helps you improve every project, every hobby, and every event you participate in. It’s a detail-oriented way to process your learning experience, which eventually leads to expert status at work or satisfied guests at home.
Note taking for the win: Taking notes is a subtle action that reveals much about a person’s character: patience, determination, and attention to detail. It also shows you’re efficient and don’t allow what’s important to fall through the cracks.
Are you going to take notes the next time you listen to anything informative?

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