There are several ways to take notes when listeing to a speech and some methods might be more effective for your way of learning than others.
However, there are some actions to make this process faster that pretty much work for everyone.
The best way to write notes is to stay focused on important things and only write these important things down. If it's about a subject that you understand enough, you can go as far as only writing keywords, as these will help you, as reminders for whole ideas, later when reading the notes.
Traditional IRA- (A) Sadie wants to have higher take-home pay during her working years. (B) Jerome wants to contribute to his plan with pretax dollars.
Roth IRA- (A) Alexis wants withdrawals during retirement to be tax exempt. (B) Juan expects to be in a higher tax bracket upon retiring.
The author wants to show that even though the Monkey King thinks he is an important ruler and is equal to the others, the other deities just consider him a monkey (and he might not be as important as he thinks he is).
