If You Forget As Fast As You Read, This Is For You

4 Ways To Hack Your Memory and Remember What You Read

Knowing and not doing is the same as not knowing. ~Peter Sage

If you read a lot, but seem to forget most of the information you so eagerly soak up, this is for you. I’d like to give you 3 things today:

1. A wake-up call.
2. An explanation of why it’s necessary and how it’ll help you remember better.
3. Four hacks you can use to memorize stuff more easily.

Let’s go!

In 2016, I learned something from a different book every single day and then wrote about it. Here’s the biggest lesson that taught me:

Rhymes are easier to remember.

Today, facts are available at the click of a button. Yes, knowing stuff makes you interesting, but you’ve been around for a while, so I bet you already have a ton of cool stuff to talk about at parties.

Being book-smart just for the sake of being book-smart is a vanity metric for your ego.