From the course: Taking Exceptional Meeting Notes

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Learn to type faster

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- [Interviewer] We're shifting gears now into the how. You mentioned that in some ways just your sheer typing speed is foundational, can you speak to that? - [Interviewee] Yes. Typing speed is extremely important. Actually out there, there are studies that talk about note taking and how taking notes with a pen and pencil is actually more effective in terms of your ability to remember things. I actually believe that that's kind of bunk, but there are studies about that. I think the act of actually taking information and then participating it that actually crystallizes things. If you're in an office setting, I would argue that typing is the equivalent of doing that pen and paper activity as long as you're actually participating. But in order to be able to participate, you can't be slowed down by your own skill to capture the information. So typing speed is extremely important, and I always tell people if I notice them not typing as fast as I think that they can, to spend some time…

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