For example, some of you may have wondered about a special section of The Honest Broker called The Vault. This includes more than 400 literary essays that I’ve written over the years. The vast majority of these were simply the result of me thinking about books I’d read, and trying to organize my observations after I’d finished them.

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Split notes Before you start taking notes, make a vertical line one-third of the way across the page, as shown in the example. Then, try to capture the main ideas (not the word-for-word verbiage) in the space to the right of the vertical line. Use contractions and omit the tiny words your brain would fill in: the, a, like, thus. Use symbols (→ + =

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