How to remember everything you read... don't

If you need to remember it, it’s not important. If it’s important, you will remember it.

For some reason, it’s become an obsession to remember everything you read. There are hundreds of videos about it with millions of views.

(Justin Sung is a great account by the way, solid follow).

You feel like if you don’t retain the knowledge, you’re a failure, or that you wasted your time, when that’s not the point of reading at all. Why would you want to memorize every word of a book?

I know why.

You want to sound smart.

It’s an unconscious status symbol for you.

You want to impress others with your articulation and intelligence, but you don’t realize that sounding smart comes from understanding, not memorization, and understanding requires a much different approach to learning. It also doesn’t help that schools tested you on your ability to memorize. You studied for hours just so you could pencil in the right answer. That’s not how life works.

That’s what we’ll talk about first.

Then, we’ll talk about why your note taking system, bookmarks, and even your precious “second brain” (the sex doll for mental masturbators) is largely useless.

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Self-sponsorship over, onto the rest:

How to actually learn anything fast

Most people have no idea how to learn.

Because most people have no idea what the learning process is.

How can do something efficiently if you don’t even understand the process?

The reason most learning fails is…