Have you ever read a book in after two weeks, you just forgot pretty much everything about the book. You try to name a few ideas and principles, but nothing comes to your mind studies have been done and showed that after 48 hours 80% of the content you just read vanished. So how can you overcome the forgetting curve? The reason why most people forget what they read is that they don't do anything with the information they read. From my own experience. The books I remember the most are the ones that I decided to act upon.

Basically, I took some time to collect the main ideas, principles, and I wrote them down and I also applied my favorite ideas to when we talked about retaining and recalling the information we read doesn't mean remembering hundreds or dozens of facts But instead, when we make the most out of a book, we retain three or five main ideas and whip and we apply a few of those. What matters is keeping in our memory the most important and valuable lessons to us. I found that that are three reasons why people forget what they read, and none of them has to do with your lack of capacity to memorize new things. The problem is the lack of attention, effort and clarity. So the first reason is because people read every single word in the book, they can't really focus their attention on the main ideas and principles that will really change their own lives solution is to clarify beforehand, what you are really looking for in a book by setting intentions, you can then go through the index and select chapters that will fulfill your intentions.

The second reason why people forget what they read is because they don't you Have the book to their own benefits. People go through a book with only the intention of reading it instead of trying to make the information useful for them. The solution is to ask the book questions in order to get clear answers that will then help you out with your own problems. If you're dealing with depression, ask a book about depression. How can I overcome or at least minimize my depression tomorrow morning? What can I do tomorrow to help me out to go through the day with more ease and happiness, you will then start looking for very positive and impactful ideas that will really help you out.

The third reason why people forget what they read is that after finishing your book, they don't take the time to collect their favorite ideas and principles. And so after a few weeks, they can state any important idea that they really loved at the time. The solution is to write The three most important ideas right after finishing a book by doing this, the concepts take longer in your long term memory, and you can always go back to your notes to see what were the most important ideas.