How To Get the Most Out of Every Book and Article You Read

3 simple questions will help you remember more of what you read.

Sinem Günel
Ascent Publication
Published in
5 min readDec 13, 2020

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If I’d ask you to summarize the last three books or articles you’ve read, how much would you be able to recall?

If you’re honest, your answer will be not much.

That’s among others because we’re experiencing a massive information overflow.

This flood of information in the 21st century is a curse and a blessing at the same time: It enables us to learn anything quickly and at low costs, but at the same time, it often overwhelms us.

According to Jim Kwik, our capacity to learn is limitless; we simply need to be shown how to access it.

Kwik is a brain coach who’s been working on figuring out how our brains work for decades. In his book Limitless, he presents three simple yet powerful questions that might help you get the most out of every book or article you read.

Answering these three questions while reading might seem like unnecessary additional work. However, the truth is they will help you retain what you read and ensure the knowledge gets transferred out of the book into your mind.

“No skill is as powerful as learning how to learn. It’s…

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