I think this is a good solution for the perennial problem of forgetting what you listened on. But the key question, unless you are a therapist, do we need to remember self help book content? Just making it part of our wisdom is enough?
Right. The detailing of the note depends on how involved are you in that topic or book. The notes don't have to be descriptive narration. Just some broken sentences will help you to retrieve the content later.
Everyone goes through that spell at some point or the other. So you are not alone.
People may mistake the agony of learning with the difficulty of the process. To have a long term memory you need to engage in the content which needs much more mental effort than re-reading. However, the technique that you use to do active retrieval and testing can be made simpler.
Subscribed..... If you were to write an essay on the book, do you think that would be more useful to retain information ?
Good point. I am not sure. For me, I will procrastinate the essay until I finish and may think I need to re-read some of the parts to cover it. By the way, there is a small section called my impression on the book which I wrote after finishing it. https://leeward-whistle-961.notion.site/Chatter-The-Voice-in-Our-Head-and-How-to-Harness-It-by-Ethan-Kross-063f9256b8b14a528c0bace245818de8
I think this is a good solution for the perennial problem of forgetting what you listened on. But the key question, unless you are a therapist, do we need to remember self help book content? Just making it part of our wisdom is enough?
Right. The detailing of the note depends on how involved are you in that topic or book. The notes don't have to be descriptive narration. Just some broken sentences will help you to retrieve the content later.
Valuable points for lazy readers like me
Everyone goes through that spell at some point or the other. So you are not alone.
People may mistake the agony of learning with the difficulty of the process. To have a long term memory you need to engage in the content which needs much more mental effort than re-reading. However, the technique that you use to do active retrieval and testing can be made simpler.