Owls Echo

When reading something, watching, listening or whatever. Make a note when any of one of the following three things are met.

1. You don't understand the sentence.

2. You understand the sentence but ask, "but why?"

My thinking behind it.

Most information in a text book, or doc, or whatever, is fluff that we already know, or things we could discover from context. The things we actually need to note are the things that; we don't understand, we want to understand more, think we should already understand.

The first 2 are kind of obvious but the third trips me up a lot.

An example.

Someone says, "I am a person". You understand this and it's no real surprise. You would figure this out on your own. Not worth noting.

Then they say "I am a *unknown Noun*". You don't understand as this is not a thing you have heard of. Take note, must look into this further.

Next they say, "as a *Now known noun*, I can sweat diamonds" this sentence makes grammatical sense. You understand it. But why/how does that work? Note that down for further investigation.