Odysseas | Become a Better Reader by Forgetting More @odysseas__ | Uploaded October 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
You often see people in the reading sphere show you methods on how to remember everything, but is that even a reasonable goal in the first place?
Why should we remember everything? I argue the opposite. That value is found in forgetting. If we can let the irrelevant insight of a book fall out of our memory's bounds, we let the truly important points shine in their place, never drowned out by the flood of information surrounding them.
I also cover how we can apply this theory into our daily reading habits by dividing the ideas we encounter into three categories, then processing them accordingly.
00:00-1:15 The Curse of Perfect Memory (Solomon Shereshevsky)
1:15-3:55 Why Remembering Everything is Bad
3:55-6:12 Actionable Advice to Improve Reading
6:12-7:40 My Method
TWITTER:
twitter.com/odysseas_px
You often see people in the reading sphere show you methods on how to remember everything, but is that even a reasonable goal in the first place?
Why should we remember everything? I argue the opposite. That value is found in forgetting. If we can let the irrelevant insight of a book fall out of our memory's bounds, we let the truly important points shine in their place, never drowned out by the flood of information surrounding them.
I also cover how we can apply this theory into our daily reading habits by dividing the ideas we encounter into three categories, then processing them accordingly.
00:00-1:15 The Curse of Perfect Memory (Solomon Shereshevsky)
1:15-3:55 Why Remembering Everything is Bad
3:55-6:12 Actionable Advice to Improve Reading
6:12-7:40 My Method
TWITTER:
twitter.com/odysseas_px
