How To ABSORB TEXTBOOKS Like A Sponge

let's talk about how to remember information that you read from the textbook now I covered this at the end of last week's class but I want to go over it again pretty quick and it's a lot easier than you might think now the way most people normally try to read the textbook they start at the first page of the chapter when they read the last page of the chapter and that's their approach they read a textbook the same way they read a novel bad idea it doesn't stay in your head so I'm going to show you a few things that you can do to be able to read any kind of a textbook or any kind of a manual especially if you are preparing for an exam this is going to be life-changing when you understand this approach so the first thing that you do is you simply flip each page what you're gonna do is you are simply gonna take the beginning of the chapter and you're gonna turn paycheck-to-paycheck the page and you just look to see what's on each page you're not gonna read anything you are just gonna look at what the pictures are you're gonna look at what the pages look like it's gonna give you a sense of how long is the chapter how much is their words compared to images what are there gonna be graphs does anything jump out at you that's the very first thing you're going to do okay now you back to the beginning of the chapter again this I'm sorry I'm gonna start over again you're not gonna go to the beginning of the chapter you're gonna go to the end of the chapter you're gonna start the end of the chapter and you are going to see at the end of the chapter did they give you any sort of a quiz in a lot of textbooks not all but in most textbooks there is going to be some sort of a quiz at the end of each chapter or at the end of each section so can anybody tell me why you think it would be a good idea to read the questions in the quiz before you read the chapters they don't look for say the answer you know where to look we know what to look for what you're discovering is what did the author of this chapter think was so important you were supposed to have gained from the information in the chapter this is what you're supposed to get out of the chapter so now when you're reading you're reading when they focused attention here's what I'm looking for now you're going to go back to the beginning in the chapter and you are going to read the bold print you're not gonna read through all the sentences you're not going to read all the information in the entire chapter you're just going to go read the bold print who can tell me what is the information that's contained in the bold print so that once you see stuff they want you to see the stuff that they put in bold print for a reason this is the titles these are the subtitles these are the topic headings these are how they broke down the information within that chapter in other words they're going to break it down for you so now you're kind of understanding how this stuff fits together you're going to go through one more time before you read the chapter and you're going to read the first and last sentence beginning the first and last sentence in each paragraph you're going to be the first and last sentence need to paragraph the first sentence of a paragraph is the introduction it's a quick overview if it's well written and if it's written by a good author the first sentence of the paragraph gives you an indication as to what the rest of the paragraph is about and usually the last sentence of the power grid helps you sum it up right now and I want to make this one stress this at this point you are not reading this for comprehension you are reading this for exposure you're not going to understand this stuff yet why because you haven't been able to connect the dots but now you're gonna have a map of all the dots now what you've got is preview of coming attractions now your brain is set up for here's what you're going to get now you read the chapter and take notes on let me tell you if you follow this formula you'll only need to go through the chapter like this once now I know what you're thinking yes even you what you're thinking is that's how I don't work well compared to what exactly it's a lot of work compared to just blowing through it and putting your book away and going back to your video game or your TV show it is not a lot of work compared to cramming for a test and hoping praying that it's gonna stay in your head and I'm gonna stay up all night trying to squeeze this information into your head because now what you've done is you've got it as a systemic approach remember the old expression I'm talking about weeks ago repetition is the mother of learning repetition is the mother of learning right repetition is the mother of learning so what are we doing here you're giving yourself multiple repeats you're getting a little bit of a quick overview of what the whole thing looks like you're finding out what the authors thought was the most important stuff to get so now you're your radar is on it's called a reticular activating system particular activating system a very fancy word for your internal radar you buy a brand new beam car and suddenly you see blue cars everywhere you know you happy to wear brown shoes that day and you notice how many of the people are wearing brown shoes that day that is your awareness has increased that is called the reticular activating system and so this is what you want to activate before you turn around read the chapter your awareness is now heightened the bold print you're now gonna find out what they thought was so important they needed to put it in bold print these are all your headlines and now the first and last sentence of each paragraph of each paragraph not just the page of the paragraph is going to give you a quick overview section by section yes a pic is slower than just reading through it once but it is a thousand times more effective can try perfect you

Channel: Matt DiMaio

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Length: 8min 16sec (496 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 21 2015

Reddit Comments

[u/readonlyatnight]

actual TL;DW: Before reading the textbook

-Flip through each page, not reading them

-See if there's a quiz at the end. What do you need to look for?

-Read the bold print throughout

-read the 1st and last sentences of each paragraph.

Then, read the textbook.

The idea being that you're now familiar with the framework of the text and what to look for, and reading will help you connect the dots with that framework.

TL;DR of TL;DW: Skim and summarize the text first, and you'll develop a helpful framework for comprehension.

[u/Timedoutsob]

Super click baity title.

[u/Repulsive_Impulse]

OP are you the guy in the vid?

[u/Ultra_jedi]

“Professor, you still didn’t answer the question. Is the textbook required for this class?”

[u/Thanks_Buddy]

reticular activating system: ENGAGE

[u/TyPodTouch]

Changed my life

[u/MinoritySuspect]

"Repetition is the mother of learning."

[u/DireOmega]

Going into my 4th year of college. I am glad that I can use this strategy to bump up my GPA from mediocre to average.

[u/returnedfromaway]

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