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14763798 No.14763798 [Reply] [Original]

>spend 2 weeks reading a book
>a week later, forget 90% of it

>> No.14763802

>>14763798
>spend 2 weeks living
>a week later, forget 90% of what I did

>> No.14763807

>>14763798
what was the lesson you learned?

>> No.14763817

just like you can't remember 99.9% of the toddler experiences that made you who you are now. the book still has changed you fundamentally.

>> No.14763826

>>14763798
You don't have to memorise the text, you know.
And if it is non-fiction, write down some notes.

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>>14763817
Good point man; have a funny picture

>> No.14763834

when i was first reading i had real feelings of fraudulence and insecurity and thought i had to UNDERSTAND and remember everything and often found myself unsure if at the end of the book i had really READ it or just PRETENDED TO READ IT and i was all insecure and neurotic about it

>> No.14763869

I read all the game of thrones books twice and the Harry Potter ones, just as an example I know they're mainstream young adult tier, but it helped me remember the chronology and main plot points better etc. if you would like to try that. There are strategies for active reading as well if you want to look them up, that may help also. Good luck nerd, relax and enjoy yourself!

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>>14763798

>> No.14764209

You are supposed to take notes, highlight and write at the margins. If you are reading fiction, stop reading fiction.

>> No.14764751

>>14763798
Many such cases. SAD!

>> No.14764782

>>14764209
Hah nerd

>> No.14765276

>>14763798
You poo the shit out my friend so it's good.

>> No.14765710

>>14763798
I want to live like a hermit reading books with no TV, smartphone, internet or PC. Would his help me clear all the fog in my head? Everything would revolve around reading books and everything else would only work to make that possible. I'd have some strict schedule to follow to remember everything and if I really needed the internet for whatever reason I'd leave the residence and dive into the internet. I think this would be the most effective way of remembering what I'd read, no?

>> No.14765764

>>14763817
Wow, I've never thought of things in this way but it makes sense. Thank you for this post, anon.

>> No.14765876

>>14763834
i get the same way. i feel like i don't really reflect on what i've read the way that other people do :( i'm peabrained though

>> No.14765902

>>14765710
No need for such drastic measures I'd say. Just start working on your memory. It is improved by memorising and frequent recall, modern people almost lost the capacity for long term memory thanks to the infinitude of storing devices at our disposal. The greeks casually kept the entirety of Iliad in their minds simply because it was either that or carrying the fucking papyrus scrolls everywhere.

>> No.14765982

>>14764209
>stop reading fiction
stop posting

>> No.14766010

>>14764209
agreed

>> No.14766958

>>14763798
Agreed how do I stop this

>> No.14767008

>>14763798
I have the opposite of this. I remember the plots of 90% of books I have ever read. Only books I read 20+ years ago have fallen out of my memory and even then only some. I am a slow to average speed reader, but I retain everything. My brain was built for comprehensive testing. Any courses I took with comprehensive tests I could ace with minimal review while my classmates dragged the curve down with their leaky memories.

>> No.14767010

>>14763798
The concepts, story line, etc., are not the important parts of the book. What's important insight underlying them. If you read a book and it truly affects you, you extract the insights from the concepts and assimilate the them to your worldview. A sign that this has happened is re-reading a book you've read a few years ago. If you find that the central ideas still exist in your mind regardless of forgetting the concepts or the plot, then you haven't really forgotten the book. You've absorbed the essentials (the insights) and discarded the packaging (concepts, plot, etc.)

>> No.14767041

>>14767010
This is absurd. How could you remember the insights if you don't remember the plot pegs the insights were hung from. Meaning without context is meaningless. An insight without evidence is just a groundless assertion. A mind devoid of context easily falls into traps of ideology and valuing cliches.

>> No.14767078

>>14767041
You read the plot, consider the insight, assimilate it to the context of your current worldview, then you forget the plot. The context changes from the plot to your previous worldview. On the other hand you have loads of people who read books and can recite them for you but don't understand anything of them (it's more noticeable in philosophy but also applies to literature). They have memorized the words, but not extracted the insights. The insight, the kernel, is what's important, and not the shell.

>> No.14767138

>>14763798
Kek, I’ve got a galaxy sized memory and I do not understand this feel.

>> No.14767198

I forget stuff I did 10 minutes ago

>> No.14767212

ACCEPT THE VOID THAT IS YOUR MIND. FIND COMFORT IN THE SILENCE. EMBRACE THE SUBCONSCIOUS.

>> No.14767241

>>14763798
I still remember everything in fiction I read a decade ago, I'm sorry. For nonfiction I take notes and rewrite paragraphs i like, that really helps it stick