The Art of Note Taking
Note taking was a large percentage of my time in school and it often bored me to death and almost never helped me remember things. That's why while I was in school, I was so excited to learn about Ching's standards of drawing and how to communicate with almost no words. This interested me so much so that I decided to attempt that in my note taking and it became a work of its own. Not only was I engaged in the lecture and able to keep many of these ideas for my future projects, but reading back on these notes from 4 or more years ago, I am still able to understand what they say.
In school, I once performed a debate with a team with no slides and only pieces of papers with our sketches as well as our own voices. Of all the discussions we heard in that class, our discussion was one of the most engaged with many people sitting up to hear what we had to say, following along with our words and the images that correlated, and asking a lot of questions at the end of the debate and after the other team had a chance to speak.
I don't believe it is just drawing that can bring this impact, but discussion, sound, images, and much, much more. Hopefully, if you're involved in the teaching world, you can bring an impact by using various styles of learning to better engage your students. And for anyone else in any other industry, I hope you also use different techniques to impact your clients, coworkers, management, and whoever else in a positive way that helps them understand and feel involved.
