Hey guys, Bea here! And this is Sophie from minimalist ways. Today we are going
to solve a very big problem for all book readers all around the world. So you've
read a super cool book but in a couple of months you don't remember what it was
about anymore.. Luckily psychology has a couple of
tricks on how to remember what you read! So let's check it out!
Has it ever happened to you? You spend hours and hours reading books that in a
couple of months become a distant memory. Does it mean these books weren't
interesting? No. Does it mean that you weren't interested in them? Also no.. It's
actually all about your memory. That's why today we're exploring ultimate book
reading tips using psychology insight. Reading a book means you are taking in
information which hopefully if the book is good you would like to remember.
We can divide memory into two different types and each one serves its unique
purpose. Short-term memory makes information
available for us for a couple of seconds or minutes. Short-term memory is
important when we are reading a book because we need to temporarily work with
the information we are looking at. From here on there are two options you either
forget the information (which happens most of the time) or the information is
transferred into your long-term memory. The memories can be stored in our
long-term memory for several months or even years. We are more likely to
remember things that have an emotional meaning to us, that are often repeated
and have engaged several of our senses. And now let's take a look at how this
can help us in book reading. Tip number one understand what you're reading.
If you don't understand what you're reading you're not going to remember it for sure.
That's where the main idea identification has proved to be a useful
trick. When we are reading a text identifying the main idea behind it is
one of the first steps towards understanding the content. Work with your
mind in asking yourself what am i reading about and try to answer that
question in one simple sentence. Depending on the text you might have to
dig a little deeper to find the main idea tip number two summarize what you
just read to yourself. Summarizing the content requires you to actively work
with the information you are presented with. Taking just a couple of moments
after reading a chapter or a book to think about what you just read and
creating a short summary of it in your head will make it more likely that the
information will stick. There's a book hack I wish I knew one
year ago! Tip number three come back to the information after some time.
We already talked about how we remember things, remember? We are more likely to
remember things that are emotional and/or are repeated. And of course no one
expects you to reread all the books you want read but sometimes just opening the
book and going through a couple of pages can spike your memory. Another great way
of recalling the content of a book is reading or watching book summaries.
YouTube channels such as minimalist ways do a great job of summarizing a whole
book in just a couple of minutes. Quick and effective! It's also a great way to
get inspired about what to read next! And if you're willing to put in a bit more
effort creating a reading journal could be the thing for you.
Write in the title of the book with a short summary and the date when you read
the book. This information in combination with other tips we just talked about are
bound to bring the memories back in no time.
And now we have a question for you guys! What do you think is the one book
everyone should read? Let's get some inspiration in the comments below.
Don't forget to go and check out the minimalist ways YouTube channel for even
more awesome book summaries and we'll see you guys next time!
have an amazing day. Bye! Bye! well luckily there are couple of psychology tricks
which can help you to remember... what? not your line apparently.
This is how girls read....
...look into the camera and smile.
No, we did actually read all of these books.
The funniest thing would be if you had it upside down.