Do you read?
Well, of course you do- you're doing it now!
But do you REMEMBER a useful portion of what you read?
But do you REMEMBER a useful portion of what you read?
(Photo: My sketchnotes for the preface to Make It Stick, Roediger et al.)
Honest truth: I can be reading and totally absorbed by a book. For like two hours straight.
You walk in and interrupt me to ask what I'm reading.
I look up to answer.
I blink.
"What book?"
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Then I have to CLOSE THE BOOK and LOOK AT THE FRONT COVER to remember what I'm reading!
I kid you not.
So making notes as I read is not just helpful, it is CRITICAL to making that time count.
NOW- ever heard of the Picture Superiority Effect? (Credit: Alan Paivio, Prof of Psychology.)
Then I have to CLOSE THE BOOK and LOOK AT THE FRONT COVER to remember what I'm reading!
I kid you not.
So making notes as I read is not just helpful, it is CRITICAL to making that time count.
NOW- ever heard of the Picture Superiority Effect? (Credit: Alan Paivio, Prof of Psychology.)
It asserts that images stay with us longer because our brains process then dually: once in imagery and then again in words describing that image.
So notes with pictures literally DOUBLE our chances of remembering, versus taking in words only!
Not to mention, if it makes you smile, giggle or even shocks you a little, you had better believe you are thrilling so much more than your word-processing neurons!
More thrills- less syllables.
Sign me up!
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