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How to Remember Everything You Read
Polymathinvestor · 2025
"Retention comes from active engagement with material — summarizing in your own words, spacing repetition over time, and connecting new ideas to what you already know — rather than from passive re-reading, which is the most common and least effective study habit."
Re-reading a page feels like studying. It's mostly an illusion of familiarity that produces almost no durable memory.
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