How to Read a Book and Remember "Everything"
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I love this trail of breadcrumbs approach where we might actually for ourselves do some learning and then realize we had already started and that the doing IS the learning. Beats the handwriting must be perfect state of readiness and other excuses I frequently too often come up with. Even just reading a novel.
Great comment and point about beating the handwriting/perfectionism issue. Handwriting does come up in today's tutorial, however, and in a very interesting way.
@@magneticmemorymethodpodcast oh wow, lol, yes, I meant handwringing! Autocorrect got me! The handwriting is on the wall, wither way!
Autocorrect needs a better AI overlord, I guess. ;-)
@@magneticmemorymethodpodcast ROFL! I've been messing around with ChatGPT recently and I'm starting to think that it stands for "Artificial Idiot". I once asked if to list all monuments in Washington DC that were built before 1863 and it listed a bunch from after 1863. I got mad and said "What part of BEFORE 1863 don't you understand?". It apologized and then did the exact same thing again and again and again and again. I asked it to give me a list of rock songs from the 60's through the 80'd that include a piano part and a guitar part - it gave me a list of songs that had one or the other but not both (including "Blackbird" by the Beatles). I reminded it that Blackbird doesn't have a piano part. It apologized and then did it again. I said "You're useless... go make me a cup of coffee" and it said "I'm sorry, but as an AI language model, I do not have a physical form and cannot make coffee or perform any physical tasks. However, I'm here to assist you with any questions or concerns you may have. Please let me know how I can assist you further".
So I said "You can help yourself to a nice big cup of shut the f*** up". And thus... Skynet was born.
Memory is a vital tool for us, so we need to harvest it with the best nootropics available as possible. Brain exercises, breathing exercises, neuro techiniques, etc.,.
I do a lot of breathing exercise, but nootropics never. People should take care with them as there are high levels of risk and many dietary errors that may not be worth the price.
I have read “How to read a book” but this video makes it much more practical and applicable! Thank so much!
I was needing a better insight on how to make the most out of my reading so that I can fuel my memory and second brain.
Glad it helped!
Anything else you'd like to see covered on the Magnetic Memory Method Podcast?
What a great set of insights = Bravo on the author names, historical dates, key ideas, key vocabulary, verbatim passages - GREAT takeaway
Glad these points resonated with you. "Magnetic" secret weapons! :-)
Such useful insights and you are very entertaining to listen to, thank you so much!
My pleasure. Thanks for checking it out and for commenting.
Any particular books that you're currently studying or reading for fun?
Great stuff! Thank you
Glad you liked it! Anything you'd like to see covered going forward?
Interesting what you said about handwriting because I'm an aspiring screenwriter and have been struggling for years to find my process and what works for me. I've tried just forcing myself to sit and write on my laptop with final draft, I tried using 3X5 cards to do the plot points; emotional beats or scene by scene breakdown, I tried burning incense and putting on music to create a mood which oddly didn't seem to help a whole lot.
I tried going for walks because sometimes the creativity comes easier when I'm walking but I've found that if I just write the actual screenplay (slug lines, dialogue etc) in a notebook it just flows out of me like water out of a bucket and I only STOP writing because my wrist is starting to hurt after several hours. I usually do that outside in the fresh air and then the rest is basically just the "grunt work" of typing it up in Final Draft. I do still organize the story structurally on 3X5 cards with six plot points (routine, inciting incident, conflict, climax, dark night of the soul, resolution) and use that as a reference but the bulk of actual writing happens in my notebook.
A lot of it was also having a schedule and a work ethic, not making excuses, get it done; fix it later. Once I START writing it's like a snowball effect and gains momentum with every page I write but I still need to take time away from writing every few days and focus on something else creative (learning a song on piano or guitar; 3D design with Blender etc) then I'll jump back into the writing with a fresh set of eyes.
I also like what you said regarding writing about what you've read in order to learn it better. One of the characters in a fictional story I'm writing is based on Richard Feynman and I recently started writing a non-fictional screenplay about Feynman using all of his lectures, interviews and books as a reference (especially "Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman). By writing about him I really feel like I'm getting closer to the man himself and closer to understanding who he really was (he was a character!) so when I'm writing this fictional character that's based on him the character will practically write itself. All I have to do is put him in a situation and see what happens, almost more as an observer than a creator or writer.
Yes, writing is often a game of just getting the snowball rolling.
I'm a bit different though. I find that if I take days off, the project usually dies. When I wrote Flyboy, it was 44 days of at least 2k words straight.
Same thing now as I'm working on the sequel.
So for me, it's still a snowball, but there's just as much uphill as downhill, if you know what I mean.
Anthony had a doubt.
For competitive exam purposes. I need to read a history book, each para with 3/4 facts to.be remembered/understood.
How should I proceed?
Should I encode into MP after each para or after reading 2/4 pages and encoding them later into MPs.
The main issue I noted after each para encoding is
a) sometimes information isn't linear, you might make a good impression of the concepts involved only after reading 4/5 pages. Encoding each para integration prevents synthesis and analysis, critical thinking and creating connections with already learnt stuff.
The issue with encoding after 4 pages: it creates a working memory overload. Though, deeper analysis and comparison does happen, but you forget the infos in the first paras read in the first page. You have to constantly shift to the first pages( time lost)
Also I have a 10 minute constraint for single page. ( including understanding, critical analysis, and making a memory palace)
The issue with competitive exams are that you can't go deep into a page( researching additional stuffs, synoptic reading etc.). Please help
Thanks for asking about this.
First, I don't believe any information is linear. It might be presented in a linear manner in the form of sentences, but the deep structure is almost certainly alinear. I mention this because how you're thinking about information could be messing with you.
Take another example: How have you determined that you have a "working memory overload"? How did you test this?
Chances are, you have determined this based on a fairly educated, but still not expert level testing of what working memory actually is related to the learning goal.
It also sounds like you do not have the real Memory Palace technique under your belt. So before doing anything further, I would suggest not living your life around the completion of one exam. Go for real knowledge, place memory as the highest possible outcome, and master memory techniques without applying a bunch of assumptions about "working memory overload" that you cannot properly test without scientific training and equipment.
Otherwise, you risk constantly running away from the learning skills you seek instead of embracing them.
There is something special about you which made me overjoyed
So I subscribed you and liked all your videos
Hoping others to taste this method and stop blaming us as ROTE learners instead of logical learners
Thanks so much for your kind words and long live logical learners! :-)
❤ back at it!
That's great, Bill. What are you reading?
@@magneticmemorymethodpodcast re-reading Seven Levels of Truth -Bill Heinrich and also re re-reading In The Vineyard of The Text Ivan Illich
Oh I've got a funny story about memorizing Shakespeare. It's kinda long...
I'm an actor and have a friend who was directing a Shakespearean play at a small theater in Hollywood. When he told me about it I was joking with him that "well you definitely wouldn't want ME in your cast! I'm not a Shakespearean actor, I don't know nothin about that Ionic Pentagram stuff!" (I was being silly). Then after leaving Sunset & Gower studios we walked over to Roscoes Chicken and Waffles and had lunch.
Sure enough about a week or two later I get a text message from this same friend who said that one of his actors had been cast in something else and dropped out of the play about two days before their final show and he asked me if I could fill in. I knew he must have been desperate for a solution because he was asking ME and I can't say no to a friend who needs help so I said "sure" but I was terrified. I knew absolutely nothing about Shakespeare at the time but he emailed me a copy of the play and I started trying to memorize my lines in my phone late that same night with no luck because there was too much going on around me at the time; too many distractions and the show was going to be in less than 24 hours. Also he had set the play (A Midsummer's Night Dream) in prohibition era Mississippi and I had to figure out my own wardrobe options which meant making a trip in the opposite direction of the theater to where I had a lot of old clothes in storage, then I still had to find a FedEx or Office Depot to print out the script because I like paper in my hand, I can't memorize dialogue from a cell phone, I need to highlight all of my own lines then start the work of memorization.
By the time I had done all of that and arrived at the theater I had literally four hours left to memorize an entire character, not the most complex one, I was playing Starveling but still four hours away and with no chance to rehearse. So I'm in the dressing room sitting on a big couch with the script in my hand when I realized that there were two huge wardrobe racks backstage - I could have just selected stuff from the rack but oh well. I got a few pages into just doing a quick read through without trying to memorize, just to familiarize with the overall story arc when all of the other actors started showing up, not just for OUR show but there was another stage next to ours and a few other shows going on, it was getting loud backstage; it was the final show and they were all excited, hooting and hollering, high fiving etc so I went outside to sit at the bottom of the stairs and continue reading.
At this time the sun was setting and I was sitting fifty meters from sunset boulevard with a beautiful sunset on the horizon, there was something really surreal about that moment but I had to stay focused, we were getting closer and closer to show time and all I'd done so far was a quick read through. So I'm flipping through the pages, minute by minute; looking at my watch; half in a panic but half excited (probably not REAL good for memorization) when this older guy pulls up on a bicycle and locks it up on the rack next to where I was sitting. Turns out he was in the cast and he could see that I was struggling so he asked me if I wanted to do a table read 8I said "Hell Yeah!". He had already introduced himself by this point and told me that he had retired years earlier but it had been a dream of his to travel to Hollywood some day and become an actor so he was finally living out his dream.
He really helped me a lot but eventually we came up on ten minutes from show time and I only had about half of my lines memorized so we headed up stairs and made our way backstage. I could hear the audience members starting to file into the theater and take their seats and my heart started pounding, I was absolutely terrified because I only had HALF of my scenes memorized but we went out onto stage and somehow got through the first scene Ok and then I'm backstage in total darkness; using my cellphone as a flash light to memorize the second half of the play WHILE other actors are on stage performing earlier scenes.
I go back out on stage again to do my next scene, got through it Ok then I go backstage into total darkness again to keep memorizing the play that's already in progress - can't find my damn script! Somebody moved it! DAMN IT! Now I'm in even more of a panic but one of the other actors had the script on his iphone (bigger than my phone), he pulls it up and quickly scrolls to the next scene then hands it to me and I'm scrolling down further to find the last couple of scenes; reading and scrolling and reading and scrolling then it's time to go back out on stage again but for this next scene the older guy stuffs two props into my hand, a plush dog toy and a cheap plastic lantern and we go out onto the stage to do the play within a play - pretending to be drunk but we're also playing shitty actors trying to put on a play WHILE drunk.
And then every actors worst nightmare came true as I'm standing on stage in front of a live audience - I forgot my lines. Then the older guy nudges me gently with his elbow; points to the dog and lantern in my hand and I said "Oh!! All I have to say is to tell you that the lanthorn is the moon; I the man in the moon; this thorn-bush, my thorn-bush and this dog, my dog!". The audience EXPLODED into laughter! They must have thought I was some sort of comedic genius (I'm playing a bad actor putting on a play while drunk) but I legitimately F'd up and forgot my lines, it wasn't planned that way at all and in fact I didn't even get a rehearsal before the show, had to improvise all of my blocking on the spot.
After the show was over we got a roaring standing ovation which was an almost indescribable feeling. It was a high unlike any I've ever felt before or since then. We all went downstairs to the bar under the theater and spent the rest of the night partying, getting drunk and I think we may have even passed a joint around outside the bar. I don't smoke or drink before shows, rehearsals, auditions or acting classes but after the show is over I might party a little bit before going home. On this night in particular though I was already high before the joint got passed around.
After that show I never felt stage fright again, it was almost like a baptism by fire. I used to be terrified before shows when I first started acting and then after a while I kind of got used to it but would still get pre-show jitters. Now I just get excited, I'm ready to PLAY. I don't even get nervous at auditions anymore, now the only time I get nervous is on my way to my to school (Playhouse West). I get more nervous performing in front of my acting teacher than I do a casting director, camera or on stage.
The older guy that helped me out ended up dying of natural causes several months later but I actually didn't cry when I found out. He lived a long and fulfilling life, he got his chance to live out his dream of being an actor and I was lucky to have met him and performed with him during his last show.
"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts..."
- William Shakespeare
Wow - thanks for sharing this amazing memory. Sounds like a well-deserved ovation indeed, especially since you know from memory the value of both having and correctly contextualizing the bubble reputation.
@@magneticmemorymethodpodcast Oh that's the beauty of it - learning to work from moment to moment; always staying in the present; focus on now; leave the past in the past. That was a tough lesson for me because I had a few shows that I completely ruined and was beating myself up over it even as the play was still in progress - then time passed; the lesson was learned and the lesson is that there's no such thing as a mistake in live theater. Whatever happens - that's what happened, that's what you have to work with and you have to make it work. The only way to do that is to stay fully present. No point grasping at a bubble that's already burst.
I'd be completely miserable if all I did was focus on mistakes of the past in fact I'd probably be a nervous wreck all the time. I think all stress is caused by thinking or overthinking and one valuable life lesson that acting has taught me is to get out of my head; stop thinking & to work from instinct rather than from intellect.
I like the analogy from the book "Tibetan Book of Living and Dying" that thinking is like shaking up a jar full of muddy water - if you just set the jar down and allow it to become still eventually the mud will settle and you'll see clearly.
That's a great quote and I think we could all benefit from doing more acting! :-)
@@magneticmemorymethodpodcast I think so too. I tell people all the time that it's an amazing life changing experience and a potential path to self discovery even if you have no intention of becoming a professional working actor. That's exactly why I became an actor, I have no intention of ever getting famous but people these days just can't wrap their heads around that concept because so many are obsessed with fame and money.
Yeah, that's sad. They would likely have much more fun if they put those concerns aside and just enjoyed the ride.
But that is again why I think Shakespeare was so on the ball with his comment about the "bubble reputation." Perhaps if more people memorized a bit of the Bard, more people would be on the path as you are.
Hey Anthony! I've been following you for a long time and you honestly have had a significant impact on my academic journey. I had one question, you mentioned the importance of using your own handwriting for better memorization, does it also apply to using Digital Writing Pads and Smart Boards or should we stick to the classic pen and paper?
Thank you and love you lots.
Thanks for your kind words and for being part of the journey. Much appreciated!
So far, the research shows that pen and paper are better than digital. But each person needs to split-test for themselves.
If you do so yourself, please share the results with us. That would be fascinating to compare with my own experiments. Spoiler alert: pen and paper win for me.
@@magneticmemorymethodpodcast Absolutely.
This is actually what I was taught at the acting school where I train. When we're preparing to do a scene with dialogue the first thing we do is ONE quick read through and actually try to enjoy the read, get into the story but make NO effort to memorize any of it. Then we're supposed to write down all of our own dialogue, ONLY your dialogue; not the other actors and take out all paragraphs, punctuation, stage direction etc. After that we're supposed to read what we wrote out loud over and over while keeping your thumb just under what you're reading.
They don't want us memorizing the other actors dialogue because we're supposed to allow it to come as a genuine surprise when we hear it and allow the other actors behaviour & words to PULL our dialogue out of us so that it feels more spontaneous.
This is all after an entire year of training in other exercises called the "repetition exercise", "Independent Activities" and "Doors" which all gets combined later (aka "doors and activities"). We're doing doors and activities plus other stuff for an entire year before we're given our first scene with dialogue because that's the work that will support the text once we get to it. Otherwise that text is like a boat sitting on the shore, your emotional truthfulness is like the water that carries the boat.
This is great, and some actors on film keep their parts on index cards in their pockets precisely because they don't want to know what they're supposed to say for days and weeks on end either.
Being surprised at what comes out of one's own mouth can be just as important as what comes out of the mouths of others.
But that's film acting and I think we sometimes confuse what preparation can mean in this environment, especially for A-list talent.
Any opinion about markers system suggested by Jonathan Levi
No opinions, as such. I use Magnetic Imagery instead to ensure maximum memorability.
Maybe people can know the core ideas present in every book that is already present in each book of a genre or sub-genre through using AI tools.Maybe by solving questions of those core ideas and concepts to gain complete clarity on those concepts designed to give complete and sustanable clarity quickly and maybe after that's done people might be able to learn the non-concepts of a book very quickly.
It's possible, but not a bet I'm making any time soon. Summarizing a summarization is unlikely to get the same outcome, for example.
Becoming too dependent on AI is like becoming too dependent on GPS. I was taught land navigation skills in the Army even though we use GPS because if that GPS fails the only thing I have to rely on is my compass, protractor, USGS map, ranger beads and my knowledge of how to use them to calculate a reverse azimuth and find my current position; then find my way out.
And as an actor - even if I had a Neuralink implant in my brain to help me recall dialogue... what if the battery dies while I'm on stage in front of a live audience? And I was too lazy to do the actual memory work? It might be good to have technology as a backup when your memory fails you but if people start to become too dependent on technology to do the work for us we're going to become completely useless as a species.
Your mind is like a muscle and your physical muscles aren't going to get stronger by having a robot do all of the heavy lifting for you - you're going to become weaker and dependent on technology until you find yourself in a wheelchair because your own muscles have atrophied from lack of use. Your mind is no different, become intellectually lazy and dependent on technology and before you know it you just ran right past "full retard' and went straight to potato.
Maybe to read 3x faster people need to skip 30% of the text in the paragraph that thet read and maybe for most paragraphs people already know 30-40% of the texts in those paragraphs and maybe there can be Magnetic Tricks to do precisely that,(That work 99% of the time).
Maybe you do not need to read things that you already know that will not affect your comprehension.
The above sentence maybe based on another sentence I don't know from where I got the sentence and whether it is based on other text or not.
I used one and I got great results. However I stopped using it because I was scared that I would miss something or something's important despite the incredibly incredible accuracy of the trick. Do you teach any methods or tricks for skipping texts for increasing reading spreed without sacrificing my comprehension, Maybe there are ways to skip Text and read however there maybe even fewer ways to both skip a text and read without sacrificing text sustainably and fast.
Maybe knowing what a book is all about can increase reading speed and maybe it can be known by knowing the title, sub-title along with the index.
Reading speed is its own issue, but ultimately I've never been nearly concerned by reading speed as I am by reading in the right direction.
How applicable to language learning would this method be? I have a philosophy that when it comes to learning often the learning infrastructure (methods by which you learn like mind mapping, memory palaces etc) is just as important as the material you are trying to learn.
It's like trying to run a marathon and no matter the ground on which you run the distance (thing you are trying to learn) will remain the same. It is however a lot easier to a marathon through a city than on a beach.
What do you think?
Thank you for your question.
Foreign language reading is somewhat different depending on the level of the reader. Depending on my familiarity with the language, I may or may not use these techniques.
For example, I can read in the ways suggested here with a certain amount of books in German, but if it was a science topic, I'd need to go more slowly.
In other languages, I would not even be at the level of reading science topics. In Mandarin, for example, I use graded readers.
Then there's Sanskrit, which I don't really read at all, but have still memorized large amounts of texts from, which is a kind of reading in the mind.
Do you have a particular kind of foreign language text in mind? I think that would help us think more specifically about the topic, which is an important one.
@@magneticmemorymethodpodcast I'm working on a proof of concept of sorts, (I'm not sure what the proper term is) for combining MMO-RPGs with a language course. (I mean, the 2 are perfect for 1 another. With the 6 overlapping areas synergizing very well together) The game would not just teach the language, but also how to make memory palaces and how to do mindmapping. (and speed reading, though I now have some doubts)
My question was more about if memory palaces in general could help with people going through such a course.
Perhaps sharing all of it here isn't the best idea (for anyone to copy and run away with) and it would be a better idea to E-mail.
If I can find a game developer that is willing to make this game in cooperation, we'll need experts in the different fields. As for memory palaces that could be you.
Thanks for your clarification.
Naturally, I'm biased to think that the Memory Palace technique would be one of the greatest learning tools - but ultimately, each person has to explore and experiment themselves.
I would strongly suggest sharing anything you have here. Just look at where I "hide" all my knowledge and how few people have run away with it.
I don't know for sure, but you'll probably be hard-pressed to give whatever you've got for free, and I wouldn't want any "expert" on a project I'm involved in who wasn't talking openly about it. We'd need all the help we can get, after all.
@@magneticmemorymethodpodcast It's still in a very early developmental stage. In terms of other experts that would be other fields involved in the game Language, history, culture. They wouldn't necessarily be secretive about there field of expertise, just not revealing everything about the game mechanics so that a different developer can run away with it.
There is of course more I can share.
The 6 overlapping areas between language learning and MMO RPG (I'm aiming for a high fantasy setting) are 1, environment, 2 source of information and entertainment, 3 necessity, 4 interaction, 5 frequency and 6 retention
and both have at least several areas where this is important and 1 can provide for the other. (Would you agree with these areas and/or do you require more elaboration?)
There is a bunch more including things that are perhaps less interesting (finance, integration of other sites and apps etc), but before any of these things are going to matter I should first get around get someone to make some concept art for me and find a developer that is interested.
Thanks for this.
I don't know enough to agree or disagree, but I've held live action memory improvement games and those things were built into it.
You're definitely onto something, so power to you and feel free to keep me posted!
@Anthony Metivier, while quite obviously it's not particularly useful to remember verbatim every word of a book, it would be nice to remember the information. my interest in memory is based on a curiosity of a theoretical nature. That scene in the matrix where Trinity downloads the helicopter program. Is a nice but very extreme example. It's not usually necessary for things to be 'instantaneous'... actually what matters more is that it doesn't involve a lot of effort. If it's easy and can within a certain time frame, that's fairly convenient. I often get called lazy, because I am very interested in what is the lazy way. It's like this ... a theory when first discovered is complicated and difficult, a generation later it's common knowledge. There's the underlying information, independent of any of us, and how we understand it. If there are many with good understanding, then the thing becomes clear and more visible to all. With little effort,... which is precisely a good thing.
Little effort as a good thing may have to reside in the eye of the beholder. The independent evidence I've seen seems to suggest precisely the opposite for many mere mortals.
@@magneticmemorymethodpodcast yeah sure.... but i'm talking about the future.
You didn't mention the future. The laziness you mentioned, perhaps? ;-)
I look at it this way: neurons that fire together, wire together. That's called "Hebbs Law" and it's the basis of neuroplasticity. The more times you go over the same material or actions/movement the thicker that neuronal bundle becomes until it's hardwired into your brain - that's how habits form, through repetition and focus. And if you're not willing to put in the work then you have no right to expect the same results as someone who is willing to put in the work; the hours, days years, blood sweat and tears.
The Nobel prize winning theoretical physicist Richard Feynman was once asked if an ordinary person could come to imagine all of the things that he did and he said that "there are no miracle people", he said that he WAS an ordinary guy that was willing to do the work. But of course he got a lot of pleasure out of finding things out and from the joy of discovery and it's not really "work" if you're enjoying the PROCESS. And in the end he didn't do any of that for the fame, the glory or even the Nobel prize, he HATED the Nobel prize. He did it all for the pleasure of finding the thing out.
Hebb's Law and Feynman are great examples here. Thanks for mentioning them in this context.
Wait. There are two youtube channels? ok.
Yes... a longer term experiment in growing the "Mempire."