Why we forget what we read
A day after you read an , you forget most of it. This is not because it was too hard. It is because you did not say it again in your own words. When you an idea, it stays with you for a long time.
One day after reading an article, most people remember only a small part of it. The problem is usually not understanding. It is that we never try to what we read. Ideas we put into our own words, even badly, much longer.
Within a day of reading an article, most of us remember only a of it. The problem is rarely . It is that we never what we read. Ideas we rebuild in our own words, however , tend to stay with us.
Within a day of reading an article, most of us only a fraction of it. The is rarely comprehension but the absence of . Ideas we reconstruct in our own words, however clumsily, tend to .








