00:05let's talk about how to remember
00:07information that you read from the
00:10now I covered this at the end of last
00:12week's class but I want to go over it
00:14again pretty quick and it's a lot easier
00:17than you might think
00:18now the way most people normally try to
00:20read the textbook they start at the
00:22first page of the chapter when they read
00:23the last page of the chapter and that's
00:26their approach they read a textbook the
00:28same way they read a novel bad idea it
00:32doesn't stay in your head so I'm going
00:35to show you a few things that you can do
00:37to be able to read any kind of a
00:40textbook or any kind of a manual
00:41especially if you are preparing for an
00:45exam this is going to be life-changing
00:48when you understand this approach so the
00:52first thing that you do is you simply
00:54flip each page what you're gonna do is
01:08you are simply gonna take the beginning
01:09of the chapter and you're gonna turn
01:11paycheck-to-paycheck the page and you
01:13just look to see what's on each page
01:15you're not gonna read anything you are
01:18just gonna look at what the pictures are
01:20you're gonna look at what the pages look
01:22like it's gonna give you a sense of how
01:25long is the chapter how much is their
01:28words compared to images what are there
01:30gonna be graphs does anything jump out
01:33at you that's the very first thing
01:35you're going to do okay now you
01:38back to the beginning of the chapter
01:39again this I'm sorry I'm gonna start
01:47over again you're not gonna go to the
01:48beginning of the chapter you're gonna go
01:50to the end of the chapter you're gonna
01:53start the end of the chapter and you are
01:55going to see at the end of the chapter
01:58did they give you any sort of a quiz in
02:04a lot of textbooks not all but in most
02:08textbooks there is going to be some sort
02:11of a quiz at the end of each chapter or
02:13at the end of each section so can
02:18anybody tell me why you think it would
02:20be a good idea to read the questions in
02:24the quiz before you read the chapters
02:27they don't look for say the answer you
02:29know where to look we know what to look
02:32for what you're discovering is what did
02:35the author of this chapter think was so
02:38important you were supposed to have
02:40gained from the information in the
02:43chapter this is what you're supposed to
02:46get out of the chapter so now when
02:49you're reading you're reading when they
02:51focused attention here's what I'm
02:53looking for now you're going to go back
02:57to the beginning in the chapter and you
03:00are going to read the bold print
03:07you're not gonna read through all the
03:09sentences you're not going to read all
03:11the information in the entire chapter
03:13you're just going to go read the bold
03:16print who can tell me what is the
03:19information that's contained in the bold
03:21print so that once you see stuff they
03:26want you to see the stuff that they put
03:29in bold print for a reason this is the
03:33titles these are the subtitles these are
03:36the topic headings these are how they
03:39broke down the information within that
03:42chapter in other words they're going to
03:44break it down for you so now you're kind
03:46of understanding how this stuff fits
03:49together you're going to go through one
03:53more time before you read the chapter
03:55and you're going to read the first and
04:07beginning the first and last sentence in
04:15each paragraph you're going to be the
04:19first and last sentence need to
04:20paragraph the first sentence of a
04:23paragraph is the introduction it's a
04:27quick overview if it's well written and
04:29if it's written by a good author the
04:33first sentence of the paragraph gives
04:35you an indication as to what the rest of
04:37the paragraph is about and usually the
04:40last sentence of the power grid helps
04:42you sum it up right now
04:46and I want to make this one stress this
04:48at this point you are not reading this
04:51for comprehension you are reading this
04:55for exposure you're not going to
04:59understand this stuff yet why because
05:02you haven't been able to connect the
05:04dots but now you're gonna have a map of
05:08all the dots now what you've got is
05:11preview of coming attractions
05:14now your brain is set up for here's what
05:18you're going to get now you read the
05:21chapter and take notes on let me tell
05:24you if you follow this formula
05:26you'll only need to go through the
05:28chapter like this once now I know what
05:33you're thinking yes even you
05:35what you're thinking is that's how I
05:38don't work well compared to what exactly
05:47it's a lot of work compared to just
05:51blowing through it and putting your book
05:53away and going back to your video game
05:55or your TV show it is not a lot of work
05:59compared to cramming for a test and
06:03hoping praying that it's gonna stay in
06:08your head and I'm gonna stay up all
06:10night trying to squeeze this information
06:12into your head because now what you've
06:16done is you've got it as a systemic
06:19remember the old expression I'm talking
06:21about weeks ago repetition is the mother
06:24of learning repetition is the mother of
06:28learning right repetition is the mother
06:31of learning so what are we doing here
06:37you're giving yourself multiple repeats
06:39you're getting a little bit of a quick
06:41overview of what the whole thing looks
06:42like you're finding out what the authors
06:45thought was the most important stuff to
06:47get so now you're your radar is on it's
06:51called a reticular activating system
06:54particular activating system a very
06:56fancy word for your internal radar you
06:59buy a brand new beam car and suddenly
07:01you see blue cars everywhere
07:06you know you happy to wear brown shoes
07:08that day and you notice how many of the
07:11people are wearing brown shoes that day
07:13that is your awareness has increased
07:16that is called the reticular activating
07:18system and so this is what you want to
07:20activate before you turn around read the
07:24chapter your awareness is now heightened
07:26the bold print you're now gonna find out
07:29what they thought was so important they
07:30needed to put it in bold print
07:32these are all your headlines and now the
07:35first and last sentence of each
07:37paragraph of each paragraph not just the
07:40page of the paragraph is going to give
07:43you a quick overview section by section
07:45yes a pic is slower than just reading
07:49through it once but it is a thousand
07:52times more effective can try perfect
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