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The ‘2–7–30' Trick For Remembering 90% of What You Read or Learn
Make it stick — like peanut butter to the roof of your mouth!
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Two hands shot up — mine and Ida’s.
We were in a classroom full of almost-teenagers. Fifth or sixth grade, I don’t remember.
The question — the one that had prompted the raising of our hands — had been asked by the school’s director.
The question was this: “Who here has read Pride and Prejudice?”
My hand shot up instinctively, driven by the memory of reading an abridged, borrowed version sometime before.
Sure, it wasn’t the full book, but it still counted, didn’t it?
The director smiled in approval, “Great! Can you stand up and give us a summary of the book?”
The thrill of being one of the only two instantly disappeared.
My mind went blank, like liquid nitrogen evaporating the moment it touches the air.
It wasn’t nerves or anything. I had just somehow…forgotten everything.
I stood there mortified, searching the corners of my mind for a single name, a vague plotline, anything.
