Summary of RECALL What You STUDY - REMEMBERING What You READ

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Dr. Mayo discusses various strategies to recall what you study and remember what you read. He emphasizes the difference between reading and studying, with the latter requiring more effort and concentration. He suggests reading with a purpose or goal beyond getting a good grade to be motivated to put in the necessary effort. Dr. Mayo advises against highlighting and instead suggests having a clear plan, good lighting, and eliminating distractions. He recommends previewing content and taking written notes while reading to embed the information into the brain. Flashcards are also an effective way to retain specific data, and spaced repetition is better than rote learning. The best-written notes are your flashcards, and reviewing them whenever possible can improve memory.

• 00:00:00 In this section, Dr. Mayo discusses the best strategies to recall what you study and remember what you read. He emphasizes the significant difference between reading and studying, with the latter requiring more effort, focus, and concentration. While understanding the new information is the main objective of reading, studying necessitates recall, especially in areas like medicine, engineering, and mathematics, which require retention of knowledge in daily practice. To be motivated to put in the necessary effort when studying, Dr. Mayo suggests reading with a purpose or goal beyond getting a good grade. Additionally, he illustrates his point with a demonstration of a bus driver's route to emphasize the importance of asking specific questions to achieve the desired results.
• 00:05:00 In this section, the speaker demonstrates the importance of previewing and previewing content to be able to recall and retain information while studying. He advises against plowing through a textbook and underlining or highlighting, which he considers a terrible way to study. Instead, he suggests having a clear systematic plan and being prepared with good lighting, comfortable clothing, good music or none at all, note-taking material, and eliminating all distractions to help retain information better. Implementing these strategies may appear slower initially, but it is more efficient and faster in the long run.
• 00:10:00 In this section, the speaker gives tips on how to effectively study business books and textbooks. For business books, he suggests reading the front and back covers, table of contents, and the foreword (if there is one), and then reading each chapter, focusing on bolded text. For textbooks, he recommends reviewing the end of the chapter quiz or summary (if available), scanning the pages for an overview, reading only bolded and headlines, and lastly reading the first and last sentences of each paragraph for a preview and review of the chapter. By following these techniques, the speaker believes readers can better prepare their minds to recall important information.
• 00:15:00 In this section, the speaker discusses the reading process that helps in remembering and understanding what you read. The speaker advises reading a chapter word by word to absorb the information and previewing the information beforehand. Taking written notes while reading is also recommended as it embeds the information into your brain better. The speaker suggests creating your own flashcards for textbooks and business books to retain the information better. The flashcards could be created by summarizing the broad concepts and important actions steps. In summary, the speaker emphasizes active reading and multi-sensory perception for remembering what you read.
• 00:20:00 In this section, the video describes how to use flashcards to remember information from textbooks. Flashcards are an effective way to absorb specific data such as key factors for determining biodiversity and aquatic systems, even statistics, and percentages. The video explains how spaced repetition is a more effective method than rote learning, which involves blind repetition, and helps connect neural pathways for long term memory. By quizzing yourself in odd moments, you can use the time, which could be wasted, to remember and revise important information. The best-written notes are your flashcards, and you want to review those flashcards whenever possible.