When I was a kid, I was taught to 'narrate' the books I read - fiction, nonfiction, whatever - just 'tell it back in your own words' at a reasonable level of detail. That helped a ton with retaining most of what I read, as it trained me early on to remember it clearly. Don't really have to bother with explicit retention methods.
That, plus generally reading because there's specific information that I need to get out of the materials. Working on some project, need to know how to do something, find & read resources that help me do it.
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When I was a kid, I was taught to 'narrate' the books I read - fiction, nonfiction, whatever - just 'tell it back in your own words' at a reasonable level of detail. That helped a ton with retaining most of what I read, as it trained me early on to remember it clearly. Don't really have to bother with explicit retention methods.
That, plus generally reading because there's specific information that I need to get out of the materials. Working on some project, need to know how to do something, find & read resources that help me do it.
Externalization FTW!
You don't know something until you try to spit it out in your own words in a way that make sense.
As an example, you think you know what a bike looks like. You do, right? Draw it without cheating. 95% of people I've asked - can't. After drawing it have a look at https://www.gianlucagimini.it/portfolio-item/velocipedia/