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Recognition feels like knowledge

Re-reading a page makes it familiar, and familiarity is easily mistaken for understanding. The test is whether you can produce the idea without the page.

The trap

Close the book and say it back

Pulling an idea out of memory is what strengthens it. Putting it in again does much less than it feels like it does.

The method

Three ideas beat three hundred pages

A book you can summarise in three sentences you will still have next year. One you merely finished is already gone.

The target

Book

Read for retrieval, not for coverage

Finishing a book is not the same as keeping it.

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