# Craig Perry - How To Remember Everything You Read (Highlights) ![rw-book-cover|256](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XcKF!,w_1200,h_600,c_fill,f_jpg,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep,g_auto/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34d44480-ad62-4765-8da3-4ddc9c20a889_2732x2048.jpeg) ## Metadata **Review**:: [readwise.io](https://readwise.io/bookreview/57072262) **Source**:: #from/readwise #from/reader **Zettel**:: #zettel/fleeting **Status**:: #x **Authors**:: [[Craig Perry]] **Full Title**:: How To Remember Everything You Read **Category**:: #articles #readwise/articles **Category Icon**:: 📰 **URL**:: [ideas.profoundideas.com](https://ideas.profoundideas.com/p/how-to-remember-everything-you-read?triedRedirect=true) **Host**:: [[ideas.profoundideas.com]] **Highlighted**:: [[2025-12-25]] **Created**:: [[2025-12-27]] ## Highlights - Because if your brain is interested in learning something, it becomes easier to see how what you’re learning fits inside the big picture. In other words, *the information is integrated and connected to other ideas and concepts*. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kdaf5pnkc5w5pp2jxa0jgmej)) ^969684300 - True comprehension requires you to continually destroy your understanding through constant evaluation and reiteration. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kdaf82t4d4ffh0x7kjyze56s)) ^969685505 - Reading has never been about storage; it’s about *change*. Transformation. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kdaf8ayxnrdm117pgzfpfbw8)) ^969685516 - This effect shows that when you are wrong about something, you actually remember the correction a lot more than if you were just uncertain about it in the beginning. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kdafpgwmd9zbyjk8eyaayahs)) ^969686107 - So, when you are reading, you should draw or visualize a mental framework and accept that it is probably wrong. But it’s just a *hypothesis*. You *want* to come across new information so you can evaluate the model and rebuild it. This allows for deeper processing and encoding of the material. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kdafq1bbsdj37zdr79rk639y)) ^969686124 - Read until you come across a key word or concept that causes you to re-evaluate your mental model. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kdafsegq35wwd0ry4cdva7a2)) ^969686196 - I’ve said this in a few newsletters but I’ll say it again: *learning happens inside the brain, not on a page or on a screen; anything happening outside the brain should be helping your learning **inside** your brain (thinking, evaluating etc.)* ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kdafvd56q52x2cr1dkzd0sk2)) ^969686261 - Use the Feynman technique to explain your mind-map out loud as if teaching someone who has never heard of these concepts before. This exposes gaps in your understanding that you can go fill in. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kdafzkv41grvw96mfj93cevm)) ^969686405