date: 2025-02-27 previous note: [[4001.2.1 Write Notes in Your Own Words]] related note(s): - tags: #note-taking # Progressive Summarization Technique The Progressive Summarization Technique is a highlighting method for note taking that starts broad from your reading highlights and then in a progressive manner narrows down the focus. When you create highlights, remember to avoid the [[4001.1.1.1 The Biggest Highlighting Mistakes|biggest highlighting mistakes]][7]. View the following as an upside down pyramid, with each successive layer having less, but more focused information[6]: - **Captured Notes** - This is a note that you may have captured from your readings and as an example, I will take a random note as a demo: - Daniel Deudney outlines five overlapping clusters of historically recognized geopolitical themes. 2 These include: (1) Physiopolitics, a type of naturalist social science that sees man's physical and political development as the product of his attempts to adapt to his environment; (2) the German school of Geopolitik, the most notorious of the geopolitical theories and its most regrettable; (3) Balance of Power politics between states, in its most recognized form the term Realpolitik suffices; (4) Political Geography, separated from geopolitics when Geopolitik was at its apex, dealing with the effects of manmade borders and boundaries on human activity; and (5) classical Global Geopolitics, which attempted to incorporate the roles of transportation, communication, and technology into a coherent view of the political world. - **Bolded Passages** - Now you take the note above and need to distill it down more. Bold keywords, phrases, or anything else that resonates with you. - <span style="background:#fff88f">**Daniel Deudney outlines five overlapping clusters of historically recognized geopolitical themes**</span>. 2 These include: **(1) Physiopolitics**, a type of naturalist social science that sees man's physical and political development as the product of his attempts to adapt to his environment; **(2) the German school of Geopolitik**, the most notorious of the geopolitical theories and its most regrettable; **<span style="background:#fff88f">(3) Balance of Power politics between states, in its most recognized form the term Realpolitik suffices</span>**; **(4) Political Geography**, separated from geopolitics when Geopolitik was at its apex, dealing with the effects of manmade borders and boundaries on human activity; and **(5) classical Global Geopolitics, which attempted to incorporate the roles of transportation, communication, and technology into a coherent view of the political world**. - **Highlighted Passages** - Take a look at the previously bolded passages and then highlight the most interesting of those passages. - **Executive Summary** - This one is rarely needed, but when you find yourself visiting a note again and again you might want to add an executive summary at the top of it, potentially with bullet points - Summary - Daniel Deudney has deinfed for us 5 geopolitical themes with overlapping traits. - The 5 clusters are: - Physiopolitics - The German School of Geopolitik - Balance of Power Politics (Most relevant today) - Political Georgraphy - Classical Global Geopolitics - <span style="background:#fff88f">**Daniel Deudney outlines five overlapping clusters of historically recognized geopolitical themes**</span>. 2 These include: **(1) Physiopolitics**, a type of naturalist social science that sees man's physical and political development as the product of his attempts to adapt to his environment; **(2) the German school of Geopolitik**, the most notorious of the geopolitical theories and its most regrettable; **<span style="background:#fff88f">(3) Balance of Power politics between states, in its most recognized form the term Realpolitik suffices</span>**; **(4) Political Geography**, separated from geopolitics when Geopolitik was at its apex, dealing with the effects of manmade borders and boundaries on human activity; and **(5) classical Global Geopolitics, which attempted to incorporate the roles of transportation, communication, and technology into a coherent view of the political world**.