Success 101 Online – A Journey in Internet Marketing

Written by DavidThomas on November 14th, 2008

What to do after an exciting educational event

Get that info where you can use it!

Have you ever gone to an event like a convention or a large training meeting and come home and forgot most of what you learned there?  That happens to many people, myself included.  So I’ve done a little research on how to combat that problem.

The most effective thing you can do when you come home is to spend a few hours and type up your notes into a document.  During this process, you will cut out the unnecessary fluff in your notes, organize them much better and commit much more of the information to memory.  There’s something about this process, this re-input of the information into your brain so you can pretty it up and type it out into a neat clean document, that causes your brain to absorb much more of it than it was able to the first time around.

So this exercise serves three purposes:

1. Helps you to commit more of the information to memory
2. Makes the information computer searchable
3. Makes the information worthy of filing for future more logical reference (a nice 3 ring binder perhaps?)

Once the info is in your brain, all sorts of new ideas and possible applications to your exact situation will automatically start to form.  That’s when the magic happens and when the true value of the time you invested in the original event is realized.