The Complete Guide to Remembering What You Read

If you forget what you read, improve your retention by understanding how memory works and changing these specific reading habits.

Table Of Contents
Introduction
How Memories Are Created
1. Previewing
2. Reading
3. Note-Taking
4. Condensing
5. Remembering

If you read a lot, but quickly forget most of the information you so eagerly soak up, this is for you. In 2016, writing about what I learned from 365 different books or their summaries taught me one, big lesson:

Rhymes are easier to remember.

Nowadays, facts are available at the click of a button. A vast knowledge of facts might make you fun to talk to, but...

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

Don’t learn solely for the sake of learning. Be a practitioner. Use the information you consume. Ironically, learning things right when you need them will also help you remember them better.