As Head of Content for Sleeknote, I create a lot of content and need to refer to and reference ideas I’ve read as quickly as possible. Third, writing a book summary helps you improve your writing.
(Think of all the instances of “research shows that” with no reference.)īut for principle-based ideas (e.g., the trichotomy of control), connecting “knowledge trees,” as author James Clear calls them, helps you internalize and remember what you read. Granted, for ideas covered, again and again, there’s a risk of moving too far from the source. In The Little Book of Yes, by contrast, Noah Goldstein discusses endings in the context of persuasion.īy summarizing an idea, in my own words, and then looking at that idea through the lens of another context, I was able to understand it on a deeper, more applicable layer. In The Power of Moments, Chip and Dan Heath explain that when people assess an experience, such as an experience with a brand, they tend to rate the experience based on the ending.
When writing a book summary for The Little Book of Yes, I noticed the author wrote about the importance of endings, a key idea also covered in The Power of Moments. Second, writing a book summary helps you connect key concepts from other books. Summarizing a book in your own words, though, minimizes that problem by helping you internalize the book’s key insights. We’ve all read a book only to forget its key ideas as soon as we finish. I’ve found there are three key benefits to writing a book summary.įirst, writing a book summary helps you remember what you read. Write the Main Takeaways in Your Own Words
How to Write a Book Summary (Step-by-Step).In this article, I want to share how to write a book summary that will help you remember what you read months, even years, after reading. And, in doing so, I’ve learned a thing or two about writing good book summaries. Since then, I’ve written 100+ book summaries for the best non-fiction books of all time. Plus, readers got a lot from it, so I continued with other nonfiction books I read.
In 2015, I wrote a book summary for The War of Art by Steven Pressfield.ĭistilling the book’s key ideas helped me remember what I read.
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