How To Remember Everything You Read - by Craig Perry
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Without needing to memorize, write hours worth of notes, or reread anything.
The minute you realize your mind is a garden and not a storage box, is the same minute you will finally stop being an information hoarder. Because you don’t actually need to remember everything you read. Most people think being informed is the same as being enlightened. They think reading more books makes you more knowledgeable. They highlight and annotate and underline everything they read. They (more-or-less) rewrite entire books and topics in the form of linear notes, which they forget as soon as they write the notes down. I wrote 70,000 words worth of linear notes in Obsidian from…
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