there you go, I'm not a fan of the methods

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And the quote, while we're at it, I'll give it to you, I thought it was really cool, it was: "If God were small enough to be understood, he wouldn't be big enough to be praised." I thought that was really cool. So, Evelyn Underhill. "If God were small enough to be understood, he wouldn't be big enough to be praised." And you see, I remember the name of the author and I also remember the quote that I read a few weeks ago. So, that's interesting too. And I remember it because I watched it several times, because I had the intention, I said to myself: "Hey, I have to remember this one", because I found it fascinating, quite simply, so I gave myself the intention of remembering it, a bit like jokes, sometimes, you know, where you hear a good joke, but you forget it. Well no, tell yourself: "Hey, I have to remember this joke to tell it to someone else". And that, in general, works.

So, of... you know, from memory that you can read in a certain number of books, for example, where they tell you: "You have to create a code for yourself. Each number that you want to remember must be associated with an image". So, there are some who have set up very complex systems, and I'm not a fan of that. Apparently it works very very well, eh. That's what memory champions use, but hey, I don't want to create extra work for myself, I just want to improve my memory a little. And with everything I've just shared with you, I think that's enough in fact.

What I also did, I set up a little system for myself. I already talked about it in a video, I'll summarize it quickly. First of all, what I do when I read with concentration, with intention, etc. well I'm going to highlight the interesting and important passages, and I'm going to try more and more to think. When I close the book, I'm going korea whatsapp number data to think: "OK, how can I apply what I read today? What does it mean for me in my life?" You see, trying to take a step back. And we read less quickly, but that's okay. We're looking for quality over quantity.

For a very, very long time, I set myself the goal of having a reading time, I said to myself: "no, I have to read..." and I read about... well, it's maybe a little less at the moment, but I was reading two hours a day for the last few months, and I was tracking the time. But in fact, I don't care. Do you have to read two hours a day? Do you have to read a certain number of pages a day? Or do you have to learn a certain number of useful things a day? That's the real question, really.

So today, I'm more into quality learning and, so, I stop, I think, I try to tell myself how can I apply this. Once I've finished the book, I put it in my zone, in my library, which I call "the incubation zone", that means I let my brain, my unconscious think, reflect on what I've read. So, I let it work in the background while I do something else.

And a few weeks or months later, it really depends on the book, well I pick it up again and I try to make some notes in my journal, to say to myself: "Here are a certain number of things that I would like to remember, a certain number of things that I would like to apply" and I try to limit. So, sometimes... it depends on the books, sometimes it's difficult, but I try to say to myself: "come on, three things that I absolutely must remember forever in this book". So, it forces me to select. I talked about a tool that I use a lot in a previous episode, the razor. So, I make long lists and, then, I limit it to three choices. Well I do it here too, I say to myself: "What are all the things that I want to remember?" and then I limit it to three, three to five things that I would like to remember in the book, quite simply.

And then, the important part is the review. And that's why, in my journal, I have a certain number of little marks. I know that during my reviews, whether they're weekly, I have a weekly review, a monthly review, an annual review, well I try to reread these notes, these things that I want to know, because if we don't review them, we forget them. Memory is made like that. There's what we call "the forgetting curve." If we don't review something, if we only see it once, well we're going to forget it in fact, unless it was very striking, unless it's linked to emotions, but in general, if you read something, you're going to forget it. So, the idea is to review. And I have weekly, monthly and annual reviews that I use for that.

What I advise you is not to seek perfection, it's just to do your best, to try to put in place a certain number of things that I shared with you today and which are, in my opinion, very very useful to have a better memory and then do your best, quite simply. That's exactly what we all do, do our best. And tell yourself that the quality of your memory will greatly condition the quality of your life in fact, because if we forget everything, inevitably, our life will be less beautiful. So, that's why I really think it's worth making the effort to work on it.

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