The only way to remember everything you have read.

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Generally, our brains aren’t built to remember everything that we come across. Except you’re one of the unique individuals who has a photographic memory, it’s probably that details about the content you absorb fade swiftly. How often do you remember reading an article, but failing to remember what it’s about?
Have you ever acknowledge a movie title but failed to remember the plot? If you constantly forget the movies you've watched and the books you've read, you aren’t alone. Like i said earlier, the human brain is not programmed to help you handle with enormous amounts of data.
Naturally, we’re bombarded with stimuli every single day. If we remembered and processed everything, then it would apparently make it more difficult for us to function. Our brain sorts through all our experiences to weed out the important and unimportant things that we encounter.

The first time you read something finishing it is the only intention.

It does not matter how much you’ve been looking forward to reading a particular book or seeing a movie. Except the content is connected to your survival, chances are that you’ll forget what you’ve read or seen soon after viewing it.
Part of this is because your basic objective was to read the book or watch the movie. When you’ve never seen something, your propelled to finish the story is your main aim. After you’ve satisfied your desire, you apparently won’t remember what you’ve seen.
Finishing the book or movie is not the same as remembering all the details. Humans store memories through a process called encoding. Our brain is better at encoding information when it can partner with new information with pre-existing experiences.
The very first time we encounter information is similar to us passing strangers on the street. Your neurons process that you’ve come across someone, and that’s the end of it. There’s no recognition, acknowledgement and after you leave the position, you probably won’t remember who you saw.

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Some people do remember what they see, though. Why?

Most times you might feel disheartened when you can’t remember what you’ve just seen or heard but it can be even more annoying when you run into someone who seems to have consumed everything. This is the friend that rehearse information from the movies that you watched sometimes ago. Long after the finer points of a text have leaked your mind, they’re still babbling about it. How do they do it? Well, these people don’t have exceptional memories. They simply take in the information actively. Since they’re actively processing information, they are able to experience the movie scenes or the book details repeatedly in a short period of time. They synthesize and revise the information so that it becomes their own.

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It’s like walking on the same path every day and running into the same people. You'll start to acknowledge people and observe more about them because they are already familiar to you. Moreover, your neurons can easily create new connections when they have been asked to analyze and revisit new information instead of passively observing it. ## The key is to see, connect and then repeat
source In conclusion, the more you actively involve with the content that you are gripping, the more readily you’ll recognize it. As your neurons rethink the exact subject over and over, it’s easier for them to create new connections.

Note:

Watching movies and reading senselessly is a waste of time. Take active advantage of everything that you see and read by finding ways to engage with the content.
Think of what you’ll probably be missing if you allow these learning opportunities to pass you by.

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Authored by @Oghie

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