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my name is Nishan kasib batla I'm a
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Grandmaster of memory and a Guinness
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record holder I'm also a professional
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speaker now when people hear that you
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know I'm a Guinness record holder or a
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Grandmaster of memory the first thing is
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they somehow assume that I was born with
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a great memory I mean which is kind of
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you know it's it's normal that people
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would assume that but the thing is I was
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born with a terrible memory in fact when
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I was in primary school I almost failed
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my uh the end of the year examinations
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so I knew that I had to do something to
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improve my memory and of course what I
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did was I started something really small
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I started memorizing five-digit numbers
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just to you know exercise my brain and I
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started memorizing 10 digits 15 digits
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and then I came to know that there's
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something called as the Indian book of
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records and if you're watching from
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India or if you are from India probably
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you heard about the limco book of
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records so I saw that there's a guy who
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memorized a thousand digit numbers and
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I'm thinking holy cow know how is it
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even possible because I could not even
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memorize 100 digits so that was kind of
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a starting point for me so I kind of
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kind of push myself and with a lot of
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practice with a lot of dedication with a
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lot of uh exercises and I actually broke
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that and that and then I continued my
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journey went to the world memory
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championships became a grandmas of
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memory and then much later uh broke
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against record and a lot of people asked
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me hey is it something that you're born
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with or something that you trained for
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and I said I trained for this they said
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okay can you teach it to us so that's
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how you know the teaching part really
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started and U uh my workshops or my
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Keynotes or my courses or my YouTube
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channel so this is my way of showing my
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journey you know I went from an absolute
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uh lousy memory to Breaking the Guinness
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record and here's a very important
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message if I can do it probably you can
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do it too but the reason I say probably
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is because I don't know what kind of
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dedication you'll have I don't know what
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kind of practice you're going to do but
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if you use the right techniques if you
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use the right amount of dedication and
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if you're have if you're committed about
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it absolutely you could be starting with
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absolute zero confidence about your
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memory but in a month in a couple of
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months if you use the right techniques
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you can definitely be much better I mean
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maybe I don't know you can even be a
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grandmas of memory just like the way I
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did so that's in a nutshell you know my
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story see many times a lot of people
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they struggle with retention when
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they're reading and pretty much it
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happens because they might be ignoring
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some fundamental principles the way I
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call them and let me just give you some
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of them here so the I see reading
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especially since we're talking about
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retention for reading I see reading as a
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multi-step process you know it's not
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reading is not like you know you open
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the book you read it you close the book
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and then boom yeah I learned it I've
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learned it and that's not the way it
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works but unfortunately a lot of people
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really do that so what is the multi-step
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process I'm talking about the first
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thing is pre-reading before you begin
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the process of reading you must do
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something which I call it as pre-reading
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now what that means is you just quickly
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browse through what is the information
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that you're about to read now the
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objective of the pre-reading is not
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really to understand anything or even to
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remember anything is just kind of you
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know setting you in the mood of reading
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you know kind of gauge the difficulty of
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the material so get yourself
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familiarized with the concept of what is
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it that you're about to read so just
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that maybe two or three or maybe four
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minutes depending on the how much amount
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of information that you're reading for
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that session that actually gives you a
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huge advantage over people who just boom
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jump into reading so that's the first
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step which is pre do not ignore that
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that's a bad thing if you do that the
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second thing is actually reading now of
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course everyone does it you do it uh
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reading so the The Twist here is when
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you are reading make sure you're
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focusing on two very important aspects
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number one you're reading with attention
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number two you're reading for
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comprehension now do not mix reading
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with scrolling and that's what happens a
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lot of time these days you know you've
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got a you're reading and then you you
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have your phone nearby and then once you
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pick up the phone you start scrolling it
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could be Instagram it could be YouTube
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doesn't really matter what it is but the
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thing is when you're are not focusing
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and know you're are messing up big time
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on retention you can't really retain the
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information so you pay attention and you
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read with an intention to comprehend
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that's what reading is and here comes
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one of the most important Concepts what
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you do after reading now reading is not
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just read and then stop with it you need
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to do what I call as post reading so
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after you read you know pause and ask
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yourself okay what is it that I've
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learned today give some work to your
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brain because if you don't test yourself
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then it's very likely that you might
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forget the information pretty soon when
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I say pretty soon it could be an hour
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after you read so get into the habit of
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uh recalling what is it that you've
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learned so when you combine pre-reading
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with reading with postreading I mean
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you're really covering some of the
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fundamental principles of reading and
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that'll actually uh set you an advantage
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your others who don't use this or use
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all these steps actually okay so let's
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talk about the importance of focus
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importance of concentration while
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reading now I see memory as a three-step
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process I call them the three Rs of
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memory the first R is registration now
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registration is the process of storing
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information into your brain so when
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you're reading you're storing
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information into your brain that's the
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first rart the second rart is retention
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retention is how long can you hold the
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information in your brain and of course
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the third R is recall recall is your
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ability to bring out the information
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when you need it now here's how focus is
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absolutely critical for the three hours
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because number one if you don't Focus
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you can't register well if you don't
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register well you can't retain well and
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if you can't retain well you can't
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recall well so if you want to improve
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your recall you have to focus at the
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right from the start so that's how
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important focus is so don't take it for
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granted work for it and make sure you
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focus that's going to be highly
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rewarding for you in the process of not
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only memory but generally in your life
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as well so one of the simple when
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especially when it comes to reading one
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of the very simple things is just before
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you begin the process of reading ask
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yourself a very simple question and the
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question is
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this am I in the right place for reading
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right now in other words is the place
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that I'm reading right now conducive for
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reading for the next 15 minutes for the
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next 30 minutes or for the next uh 1
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hour so just asking that question will
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make sure that you clean up your room a
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little bit or maybe you know take away
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the distracting elements in your room or
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maybe you want to shut the door or do
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something just ask yourself is this the
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right environment for reading and that
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alone will actually help you to make
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sure that the reading session will go
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with less distraction or maybe you'll
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come to a time where you'll have
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absolutely zero distractions one of the
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other things that you might want to
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really pay attention is changing the way
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you read when you approach different
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kinds of material you know it's not like
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one technique for all let's say for
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example you're reading textbooks uh
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compared to reading a novel or compared
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to reading a technical document so yeah
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your reading style has to definitely
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change you can't be using one technique
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for all and the the reason is because
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all these way all these different
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documents are written in different
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manner so let's take for example
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textbooks you know for textbooks the
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absolute critical thing you should be
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really doing is pre-reading like I
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already talked about you know preading
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is a very important concept let's say
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for example you have a textbook that is
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300 Pages now a lot of times what
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happens is people uh open the textbook
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they read the first chapter and then
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they read the second chapter then they
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the third chapter now my suggestion is
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spend one hour and you try to do
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pre-reading for the whole textbook now
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what you do you mean by that is you know
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look at the chapters and go into each
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chapter even before you begin the year
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before read the first chapter read the
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first chapter read the important
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elements of that just browse through it
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go to the next chapter go to the next
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chapter now again if you don't
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understand anything that's okay if you
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don't remember anything that's okay the
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objective of this is to see what is
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there what is the scope of the whole
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textbook and how each uh chapter is
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linked with the next chapter because
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that understanding actually help you to
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have better memory better comprehension
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later on when you actually get into the
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reading so that's about uh textbooks uh
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the second thing is let's say novels for
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example now for novels definitely don't
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do pre-reading because that's going to
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kill the joy you don't want to pre-read
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and you know know the plot beforehand so
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for novels I think probably the best
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technique is you know find yourself in a
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place where you can really chill relax
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enjoy the process of reading that's all
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I can say for novels now when it comes
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to technical documents ments now that's
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a little bit of complicated stuff
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because most probably you're reading
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something for the first time in your
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life so you really don't have much
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knowledge about that information so for
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reading technical documents one of the
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techniques that I talk about is you read
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the first component or the first unit or
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the first section of that pause and ask
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yourself okay if I were to rephrase this
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in my own words how would that look like
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so finishing one section asking yourself
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how can I rephrase it in my own own
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words actually helps you to uh look at
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the document in a much better fashion so
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again you need to change the way you
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read for different types of information
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and also it also depends on the
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objective now are you reading just to
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gain understanding or are you reading
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for examinations so it also depends on
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you know how much Focus how much
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attention how much testing you need to
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do yourself to make sure you uh pass
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that objective that you have in front of
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you when it comes to improving a memory
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one of the other important aspect that
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you should keep in mind is the
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importance of visualization uh whether
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you're reading or whether you're simply
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remembering doesn't really matter
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visualization plays a very important
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role so let me ask you a question go
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back to your school days do you really
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remember everything you learned from
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your school the probably the answer is
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no it's impossible right but probably
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you remember one or two concepts where
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your teacher helped you to visualize for
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example in my own life I still remember
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the way the teacher my teacher explained
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the concept of you know uh every action
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has an equal and opposite reaction now
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that just a phrase it doesn't mean
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anything for a young child who's
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learning that concept for the first time
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but my teacher explained the concept
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with the help of a rocket you know the
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rocket going up there's thrust of the
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engine so every action has equal and
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opposite reaction and just like that not
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only I understood everything but I
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remember that for the rest of my life so
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again in your life you might have
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remembered some Concepts simply because
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your teacher or your any person who
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helped help you to learn help you to
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visualize that so I mean that's also
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probably why you've heard this thing
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before right uh a picture is worth a
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thousand words so why do you say that
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because why do we say that because
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whatever you see in a picture format
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your brain tends to remember that
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information for a long time now how do
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we use this in reading now this is a
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tricky thing because it also depends on
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what kind of information that you're
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reading if you're reading things that
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are easy to visualize let's say simply
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example let's say I'm talking about
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photosynthesis in photosynthesis you
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know you have the leaves you have the
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sun you have the roots all of these
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things are pretty easy to visualize so
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when you're reading don't just read it
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like you know just a drab text no
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visualize you know the sun rays falling
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on the leaves and the water is being
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going into the roots you know just try
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to see visualize that that will actually
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help you to remember better now what if
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it's not easy to visualize so for that I
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would suggest that that you know try to
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organize the information into a picture
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format you know it could be a flowchart
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it could be a mind map for example or
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draw some icons or draw some little
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pictures to help you visualize so the I
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mean ultimately whether you end up
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visualizing or not the very act the very
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effort you put in trying to visualize
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makes the whole learning process a fun
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process so the question you need to ask
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yourself is okay how can I visualize
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this information it's okay if you failed
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answering that question but asking that
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question is critical because sometimes
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we underestimate ourselves you know when
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you ask the question hey how can I
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visualize boom your brain might Supply
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an answer for that so yeah try asking
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that
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question when it comes to reading I
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think one of the very important U uh
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element that many people are worried
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about whether I'm doing right or wrong
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is the concept of note taking note
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taking is a very important concept it
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actually can help you to not only to
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organize your notes but also if done
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right it can also help you with Recall
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now here's a fundamental question that
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you must ask yourself when you're taking
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notes is my note taking only organizing
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the information or is it really aiding
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me in the process of recall is it
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helping me to internalize information so
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let me you I mean there again not taking
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is a whole big concept so I'm just going
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to give you maybe a couple of examples
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so simple ideas of how you could
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organize your notes so first technique
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it's called the outline method now it
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might look boring
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but it really works what is an outline
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method outline method is pretty simple
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now before that let me tell you
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typically how people take notes now I
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worked with students I worked with
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people all over the world and I've seen
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people taking notes now what happens is
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the typical notes look like this they
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write a sentence and write another
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sentence and write another sentence
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maybe a phrase maybe some keywords it's
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all a list of sentences or a list of
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words now that does not Aid you in
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recalling when you're doing the
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postprocessing of note taking so so a
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good technique would be use the outline
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method now what's an outline method
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first of all on the top you write the
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topic and on the left column first you
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write the subheading the main topic and
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below that you write bullet points don't
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randomly write sentences write the
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heading and write the bullet points now
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why is it important so first of all
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first key idea then you got bullet
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points second key idea then you write
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the bullet points the third key idea
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bullet points why is that important
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because after you have done with the
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note taking when you want to test
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yourself all you need to do is to go
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back to the notes and you cover up the
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bullet
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points and you ask yourself okay what is
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this all about what is the first point
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okay what did I write this kind of note
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taking will facilitate you to test
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yourself but if you're writing random
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sentences how do you test yourself uh
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you can't do that so outline method is
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very simple it might look boring but
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it's just a way of neatly organizing the
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information to facilitate recall at a
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latest stage that's one and probably the
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second one it's a very popular technique
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it's called mind mapping now I have a
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slight Twist on mind mapping now mind
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mapping you know is you know you have
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the central idea on a in the central
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page on the center of the page and then
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you draw
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branches and the first uh point you put
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on the first Branch second Point put on
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the second branch and the sub points
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within each of these points you put in
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the lines around the branches so you
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definitely have seen a mind map before
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now one of the important concepts of
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Mind One of the important elements of
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Mind map in fact there two now number
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one mind maps require you to draw colors
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you know use different colors to make it
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really appealing to the brain that's a
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great thing I'm not saying it's not a
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good thing the second element is draw
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pictures draw little cute pictures icons
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blah blah blah now here's the thing if
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you have colors at uh that that you can
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easily access if you can draw boom it's
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a good thing for you what about people
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like me I'm not carrying colors with me
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all the time I can't draw I mean I I I'm
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I I I don't consider myself an artist in
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any measure so I can't really draw so a
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lot of times people think oh I don't
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have colors I can't draw so mind mapping
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is not for me well here's the good news
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so that's reason why I have a concept I
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call it as info mapping so again if you
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can draw if you can have colors go for
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it use it but if you don't don't be
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discouraged so what you do is you do
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exactly the same thing like a mind map
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but you don't have to make it colorful
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you don't have to draw pictures the very
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process of you taking the information
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from the book and putting it in picture
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format that process itself will help you
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to internalize information and also just
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like I told you with the outline method
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you can cover up the branches of uh one
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of the branches and then you can recall
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okay what are the uh what are the key
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points what are the key lines on this
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thing and then you can slowly reveal and
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see whether you're getting it right or
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wrong so again don't take notes just for
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the heck of it I would say take notes
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that actually will help you to recall
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better to help you to internalize what
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is it that you are
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learning if you ever started doing some
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research on memory or anything you
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definitely would have heard about a word
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called pneumonic devices or pneumonic
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techniques it might look like you know
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very technical sounding word but in if
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you want to put it in simple words
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nemonic devices are simply a way of
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converting or transforming the
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information that you want to learn into
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an easier format that's all it is it's
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not like some scientific terminology
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it's just you take the information you
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reorganize it and try to make it make
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your life easier so I'll give a couple
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of examples which probably you aware of
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so how do you remember the colors of the
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rainbow you know most people they
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remember uh Roy G Biv you know so what
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you do you take out the first letters of
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all the colors so the red is the first
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color so you take out the r and you take
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out Indigo the first letter is um sorry
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orange is the next one so O So Roy G B
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that's how you remember so you have the
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information
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you take out the first letters now you
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have just one small thing to worry about
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now for those of uh my friends watching
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from India Pakistan Nepal Bangladesh you
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definitely have remembered the colors of
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the rainbow in the other order now we
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don't know what the heck Roy G B is we
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remember it by Vib jar now what is vijar
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no one knows but we learn it from violet
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indigo all the way to Red doesn't really
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matter but the point here is it's
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organizing the information that's one
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example and the another example is uh
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when you are learning uh
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you know the mathematical expression how
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do you solve a mathematical Expressions
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probably you heard about pdas or bodmas
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so depending on which part of the world
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you you studied so the same thing uh B
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is brackets o is operators D is division
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m is multiplication or pamas would be
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P's parenthesis you know E's exponents
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so it's the same thing you take out the
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first letters and you try to recognize
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that or you could take the help of Rhyme
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now I don't know if you have heard this
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but if you want to remember which of the
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months in the calendar have 30 days and
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which has 31 you know we know February
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is an exception here so you probably
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heard about this rhyme 30 days had
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September April June and November now I
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that's how I learned it you know that's
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how my dad taught me that's what a lot
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of people in the world remember which
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months have 30 now again you take the
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information you reorganize it and make
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your life easy so how can you use it
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since there's no want technique for
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pneumonics it's basically you look at
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the information that you have in front
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of you and ask yourself okay can I
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visualize it can I use the first letters
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can I use the part of Rhyme or can I use
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visualization for example let me give an
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example of visualization as a pneumonic
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device so let's say you want to remember
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the capital of Cuba is Havana how do you
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learn that so you can convert that
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information into pictures for example
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Cuba I would think of because Cuba
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itself doesn't have a picture for me so
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I think Cuba as a cube it could be
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Rubik's Cube or some other Cube Havana I
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think of the word heaven and you could
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think of something else like a if you
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you know another word another language
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and Havana has a different meaning in
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your language yeah you take that so we
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have Cuba and we have Havana so Cuba is
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Cube Havana is heaven you just have to
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link them together in a fun way for
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example one of one of the ways I learned
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it was I'm solving Rubik's Cube and
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suddenly I Sol it and I felt I was in
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heaven so that's it so when you think of
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what's capital of Cuba you think of the
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Rubik's Cube and then you sol it you in
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heaven oh haana so these are some of the
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examples and uh the the interesting
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thing is you'll have fun while doing it
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so definitely give it a try and see if
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you can reorganize it and make it easy
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for you with the help of rhyme with the
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help of first letters with the help of
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visualization with the help of
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Association or what have you doesn't
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really matter so make your life easier
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by doing uh this kind of rearrangement
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so one of the question that I get is you
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know can can you use the pneumonics for
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remembering people's names yeah
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absolutely it it definitely does
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especially you know the rhyming like the
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Cuba Havana technique I talked about a
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lot of times you know people from India
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they can easily remember my name Nishan
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it's because it's a common Indian name
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but if I'm in a different part of the
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world so they've not heard this word so
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the way I tell them is my name is Nishan
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sounds like Nissan you know the card
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Nissan now again yeah of course Nishant
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and Nissan they're not exactly sounding
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similar is just a way to trigger the
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actual word and also Mak your life a
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little bit easier so in fact not only
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names you can also use this for
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technical Jon anything that you are when
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you're reading something you come across
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something that you have not heard before
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that you have not known before it could
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be name of a word name of a person name
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of a concept you can see can I visualize
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that and just by using that for example
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when I was uh learning how to speak
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English one of the first things I
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learned was to focus on vocabulary focus
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on actually speaking the English
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language with someone who is better than
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me so vocabulary English just like the
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way I did Cuba with Havana you can
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replace Cuba with one English word and
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haana with the meaning you can link them
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up as well so yeah just this has has
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multiple uh uses not just for reading
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but also whenever you want to learn
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something you can use pneumonics when it
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comes to reading uh a lot of times you
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know probably they they read something
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about speed reading and stuff like that
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online and they get excited oh I want to
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read faster you know I'm reading too
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slow so can I can I make my life better
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should I read speed or not now that's a
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good question and of course reading
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faster will save you time will save you
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energy but the thing
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is this is my take on speed reading the
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order of importance is this number one
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you work on Focus number two you work on
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comprehension only then worry about
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speed because your speed should not
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affect your comprehension now what's the
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point I can read 10,000 words per minute
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and then you ask me what do you learn I
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said ah I learned
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something that's not going to really
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help you that much right so your reading
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has to Aid your comprehension so so that
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means you need to really adjust your
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reading speed so again it can't be too
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slow because sometimes if you're reading
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really slow that itself can get you
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distracted right and sometimes you're
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reading too fast you know you can you
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really uh mess up with your
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comprehension so don't worry too much
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even though I teach speed reading I know
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I have courses on that but that's not
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the one you should be focusing on if
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you're struggling with retention if
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you're struggling with Focus
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comprehension first focus on that and
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once you do that once you have logged
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that in then the next aim is reading
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faster so that comes later if you've
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been struggling with retention
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especially when it reading while reading
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or otherwise uh there are actually some
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daily habits that you can incorporate to
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make your life easy now again these are
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this is what I do and I highly encourage
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you to do the same thing too and the
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very first thing especially when it
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comes to retention uh when it comes to
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reading is the first habit that you want
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to incorporate I would say is get into
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the habit of reading because
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unfortunately ever since we have the you
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know smartphones and you know all the
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digital Revolution a lot of times people
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are not really reading that much you
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know one of the biggest things that I
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see uh which is really detrimental to
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your whole process of comprehension and
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learning and reading is people look at
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an article online and then they say oh
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it's a very long article I don't think
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if I have the time to do it so let me
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just bookmark it and then you bookmark
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it and then you just forget about all
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the bookmarks or uh you're reading
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something but you're not you're stopping
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it like a lot of people say Hey you know
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I bought this book is it a good book or
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what book do you recommend so I
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recommend some book they buy the book
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and then what happens to the book that
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just book that book that book just
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becomes a you know attracting thing on
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the bookshelf now that reading book I
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mean buying books is not going to help
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you bookmarking the articles is not
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going to help you only thing that really
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helps you is the process of reading it
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and all that stuff so my suggestions
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habit number one is make it a habit of
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reading every day because people have
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lost the uh the habit of that that you
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know they're not doing it that much so
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start with maybe 10 minutes you know
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every day 10 minutes I sit in a place
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where I'll not be disturbed and I'll
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read for 10 minutes with real attention
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with real comprehension so let me do
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that that's number one and the other
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habit is I mean uh do not underestimate
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the importance of pre-reading and
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postreading so one of the other habits
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that you must definitely incorporate in
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your reading is reading is not a
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standalone process every time you read
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start with a pre-reading couple of
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minutes three minutes maybe and after
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reading do with the uh post reading
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which is you know trying to recall what
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is it that you have and the other habit
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thatth you are that you can definitely
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uh incorporate in your life is the
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importance of any kind of meditation or
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mindfulness practice now again it depend
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again meditation is a whole new science
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and I've got a whole video on that on my
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channel so uh it's it's a big thing so
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I'm not saying use this meditation
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technique just chuse anything because
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meditation at the at the core with will
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actually help you to a person who is
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more aware who's more attentive who's
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more mindful now guess what where you'll
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be using all these things while reading
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when you're reading you have to be
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conscious you have to be present I mean
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you'll be conscious of course but you
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have to be present um and you should be
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with that in that flow and meditation
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can really help you so couple of again
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uh quick recall uh you have uh that make
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it a make reading a daily habit use some
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kind of meditation or mindfulness
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practice I do every day 30 minutes from
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Monday to Friday now that's my practice
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has been doing it for more than 20 years
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now so 30 minutes every day I do it um I
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encourage you to do it as well and uh
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the other thing is uh postreading and
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pre-reading so these are some of the
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daily habits if you do it every day I
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can definitely say that even within as
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little as a week you will see a huge
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change in the way you read in the way
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you understand in the way you focus and
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in the way you internalize the
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information and benefit from the reading
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that you're doing in in your life so
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definitely go for this now I'd like to
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leave you with this you know being a
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memory expert one of the most important
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questions I get all the time is hey how
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can I improve my memory now like I said
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memory is a three-step process you got
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retention you got uh sorry you got
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registration you got retention and You'
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got uh recall so at the starting of all
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of that at the even before you do the
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registration the important element is
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pay attention in fact one of the most
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fundamental memory technique I can give
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you in your life is this pay attention
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because that really it might look very
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simple and I I know that if you are in
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school your teachers must have told you
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a million times in the class please pay
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attention and they were right it's just
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that we are not doing it especially in
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today's world with smartphones and you
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know all the distractions you know we
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are not paying that much attention so
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pay attention and everything that I told
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you in this uh series here is actually
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going to be really helpful for you and
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the most important thing I like to tell
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you is this is a a journey so you don't
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have to become an expert in a day
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tomorrow you don't want to show up as
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okay you know I'm a different person
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no everything takes time you know even
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the longest journey starts with a single
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step so pick one that works for you
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maybe you want to start with pre-reading
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okay get a hold of that get used to that
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and then make it a habit then you slowly
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add on something else you know maybe let
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me work on attention let me work on
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Focus then you work F work on
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comprehension then the post reading then
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the note taking it's a journey and
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slowly when you add new skills to Your
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Arsenal to your toolbx to your weapon
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box whatever you want to call that so
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that's going to really help you when you
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really reading something with you know
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with a big object like you know reading
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something because you to give a
00:28:40
presentation you're reading something
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because you to pass an exam so all these
00:28:43
things will help you and then you can
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open your tool boox and say oh okay I'm
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reading a technical document boom I'll
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take this and I'm going to use it oh I'm
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just reading for fun okay you know what
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oh I'll take that tool and do that so
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you'll have an awareness and
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understanding understanding of what tool
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to use when but I would say take it as a
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journey and most importantly enjoy the
00:29:03
process because probably you've learned
00:29:04
this
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before when learning is fun learning is
00:29:09
easy so don't fret over learning if I
00:29:13
know if you're really frustrated about
00:29:14
learning break it down make it simple go
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piece by piece but definitely aim for
00:29:19
having fun because when you're having
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fun you're actually solving most of the
00:29:22
issues that people have when it comes to
00:29:24
learning when it comes to recalling when
00:29:25
it comes to memorizing information
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if you like to learn more from me all
00:29:29
you need to do is to go to my YouTube
00:29:31
channel there'll be a link down below
00:29:33
somewhere and also I have uh some
00:29:35
courses online courses that you can take
00:29:38
and uh also like I said I I'm a
00:29:39
professional speaker so you can go to my
00:29:41
website remember Nishant
00:29:47
docomomo company to speak at your next
00:29:50
event so I'll be do I'll be more than
00:29:52
happy to see how I can help you with
00:29:53
that so it's been great uh talking to
00:29:55
you uh through this channel and uh I
00:29:58
hope really get some valuable insights
00:30:00
and most importantly action gets results
00:30:04
any amount of reading any amount of
00:30:05
watching any amount of listening is not
00:30:07
really going to help you that much so
00:30:08
take something take a little bit apply
00:30:11
it in your life and see the difference I
00:30:13
wish you all the best in your
00:30:22
journey
