I learned a system for remembering everything

Huge thanks to Ryan Holiday for taking the time to chat! I’d def recommend adding Courage Is Calling to the top of your reading list! 👍 amzn.to/3K207XF

I feel like this quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson fits perfectly here: “I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so they have made me.”

“Imperfect Action is better than Perfect Inaction” Most important takeaway is to just get started, make it a regular habit, and you will discover what works for you well, whether it be highlighting stuff, keep a journal, or just re reading those books again 🙂✌🏼

“You are better off starting imperfectly than being paralysed by the hope or delusion of perfection” Loved this statement and it hit deep

I learned a fast way to improve my memory of books in college. Instead of highlighting phrases, sentences or paragraphs I would highlight only one word in an important section. The key was to highlight a word that would make me question why I had underlined that word. For example, in the sentence "Studies show aspirin use to be associated with reduced risk for a number of cancers including prostate, pancreatic, and rectal" (Source: "Surviving Cancer Covid-19 & Disease, The Repurposed Drug Revolution" by Justus R. Hope, M.D.) I would highlight one word like "risk" so that when I scan through the book later my curiosity makes me ask "What's this about risk?", or I might underline "aspirin" so that when I see it later I think "What's this about aspirin?" This way I can quickly reinforce the key points by scanning the book several times until I can recall all the important points.

Great video: 1. Read a book. Analog is better than digital. 2. Don’t be scared to take notes in the book, Highlight, book mark. You’ll have to build a system. 3. When you’re done, go through all the notes that stood out to you and write them on flash cards. 4. Digest the information, think of ways to use it. 5. Enjoy the process!! Take your time. 6. ORGANIZE ALL YOUR NOTES. File them in separate boxes.

Memory is derivative of necessity. It's similar to learning a language (either your first or a foreign language) -- we don't learn by passively absorbing what others say, but by feeling a need to speak in a way that's understood by others. Same with retaining information in books. Memory is created not when you passively receive some idea, but when you feel a need to explain it to someone else. Read every book as though you intend to be able to teach the same ideas to others.

When I was a kid I was to be able to read any book and summarize almost everything in it. My teacher ask me to summarize all the points we read yesterday for a student who missed class. Almost word for word I said everything that happened and finished exactly where we left off, my teacher accidently blurted out you so smart. I laughed because I though see was over exaggerating but turns out to be very hard for most adults to do this . After a decade of tik- tok I find myself finding it hard to remember what I did this morning let alone a book I read I month ago. I'm hoping after a social media detox I get my brain back to that exact point.

"I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you want to retain what you learn while you're learning: 1.) Take conscious time in taking down key notes you want to remember. 2.) When done, Review your notes, revise when necessary. 3.) Apply what you have learned in the real world (In this case, its the organizing and categorizing into a box). 4.) Repeat. You get better at it and can develop a system that suits better for you.

'It's better to start off imperfectly rather than be paralysed by the hope or delusion of perfection'. Thank you Ryan.

"You better off starting imperfectly than being paralyzed by the hope or delusion of perfection" got me!

The guy remembers all that stuff because he is probably telling people those quotes day in and day out. That's his life. You remember stuff you talk about and think about all the time.

I’m 19 and I honestly feel like a dunbass due to the fact that I can’t simply remember anything I read

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What works for me is to learn or study with the intention of teaching it later on. This gives the brain a real life application to memorize it better.

9:58 - 10:04 BEST QUOTE🌟 “You’re better off starting imperfectly, than being paralyzed by the hope or the delusion of perfection” --Ryan Holida

As any university student knows, using Holiday's technique is definitely the most effective route but by far the longest. I tried his technique a year ago in university, and it worked great. By the mid-semester test, I nailed it - a 50% increase in grade from all previous tests for my courses. However, come the end of semester test, not only was I unprepared but my knowledge and notes were five whole weeks behind. Obviously this is a skill worth practicing, but just be aware that it's not easy to develop straight away. I still find myself over-highlighting and taking too many notes because almost every sentence has value. A 30 page anthropology reading quickly turns into a 3 hour expedition, and there goes my day. It's far better to accept prior to reading that, when time is on your shoulder, you won't remember everything. I'd say that it's more about reading less books but with more intention. There's often more knowledge to be learnt in a single book than the knowledge gained by reading 100 books without intention.

Until I was twenty, I hated reading, and I thought I was stupid. I started reading at the age of 21, when I started studying psychology at University. In the past 4 years, I have read about 200 books. My recall of the books I read is very good; I can usually remember not just the main points, but also the arguments, stories, case studies and jokes. When someone talks about a psychological theory, I can usually remember the name of the theory, the name of the author and the name of the books or articles. I think the most important things that work for me are (1) I only read something when im really interested in it. If I'm not interested in it, I try to get back my curiosity by reminding myself why I wanted to read the book in the first place. If the emotion is not there, there's no point in reading, so I do something else until the desire is back. (2) I highlight everything I find interesting. Not just the interesting facts or theories, but also interesting stories or funny jokes. (3) I make sure that there is some kind of output; I write papers (for myself), I talk about it with others, or I teach workshops about it. Recall is like a muscle, you can train it, and get better at it. Now, I can read for hours without pause and remember everything that I read. But interest and curiosity are always driving the learning process. (Also, I have a book instagram called mind.readr, where I review and summarize books on psychology, philosophy and psychotherapy)

I think the best way to recall what you learn is to use the data as soon as possible, even if its just jotting stuff down and discussing it with friends...playing around with it in as many ways you can think of, so you create "doingnesses", which solidify things in your mind.