How to Improve Information Recall Jordan Peterson

what's the best method to retain what you read and to be able to use it in conversation well it's very difficult really to retain anything without recalling it so look if you encounter something and then you encounter it again you can usually recognize that you've encountered it before that's recognition memory so it's it's an important form of memory it's it's it's the memory that's associated with familiarity but it's not the same as being able to use something exactly it's rather shallow form of memory even though it's necessary in order to be able to use something you have to recall it and this is also very useful hint for studying like if you're studying and you have to remember what you want to do is study and then you want to write down what you just learned so you read paragraph you close the book and you write down what you remember or you read chapter and you close the book and you write down what you remembered or at least you sit there and you try to remember because the way you remember is by practicing remembering okay so if you're reading and you want to use it in conversation and you have to think about what you read you have to put it in your own words it's often helpful to close the book and write it down or to associate it with some problem that you're currently trying to solve you have to take the knowledge and make it your own and then and then that alters the structure through which you look at the world and that changes the way that you think so that when you have conversation the next time that you're going to have the conversation in different way so merely reading isn't enough you have to you have to read and think and recall and it's the act of recalling that produces the remembering and it's that act of remembering that puts that material at hand for you so