From the course: Taking Exceptional Meeting Notes

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Share inferences by connecting dots

Share inferences by connecting dots

From the course: Taking Exceptional Meeting Notes

Share inferences by connecting dots

- [Pete] Are there any other key frameworks or schemas that are handy when it comes to synthesizing? - [Anne] Yeah, I know there's active synthesis that I describe in the book. I call it inference. And so, this is like a really simple technique where you try to collect multiple pieces of information and then you try to extrapolate another piece of information out of that. So one of the mistakes that you'll make, maybe early on when you're even participating in meetings, regardless of whether or not you're taking notes, is you just take statements at face value. So it's like Anne's going to go on vacation this week, Pete has Anne scheduled for a podcast this week. Those are two pieces of information. Now, if you're not thinking about them, you just write those two pieces of information down. But if you're thinking about them, you realize, Anne's on vacation this week and Pete's got a podcast. Well, Anne's not going to make that podcast and we need to reschedule it. There's like an…

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