ITT: how you retain info
Do you take notes when you read books?
Xavier Jackson
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Anthony Barnes
>read books
Watch youtube, n00b.
Hudson Bailey
I have to use the thing I'm learning at least 5 times otherwise I'm going to forget it real fast.
Dylan Gutierrez
Yeah i write in my books only if it is something I don't know or complex and keep my program files for any references.
Jonathan Allen
this is what I do too
Anthony Lee
I find it fascinating how completely different people's brain work when they read a book and the drastically different techniques naturally used to register information.
I knew a guy that would read through a book without retaining anything. The moment he finished a sentence it would be out of his mind.
Some people pay attention to each sentence but that's it. Studying is reading the material from cover to cover. "I studied (i.e. read) the chapter three times, how could I fail?"
Some people try to arrange information into a sort of mental web, linking each concept to the others, trying to anchor new knowledge by making a mental connection with existing knowledge.
Some people have hypermnesia and just... remember everything they read. It happens automatically.
Tyler Jones
I do exercises (math) and write programs (programming). I need to do and fix mistakes to retain info.
Nathaniel Diaz
If you want someone to spoon feed you explanations with talking then its obviously not for you
Blake Sanders
>how you retain info
I don't. That's why I keep reading.
Michael Wood
I have a personal wiki which includes everything I know and have ever learnt, like work related notes, every piece of tech or tool I have ever used, memes, recipies, people, locations etc. Its gotten to the point where if I dont add a wiki entry for something I may as well have never learnt it