How to memorize new information from a book or study material much faster? To do this, there is absolutely no need to improve memory or develop memory, you just need to follow an approach that, unfortunately, science has known for a very long time what it should be, but for some reason it did not become the mainstream of our educational institutions. And so, in order to understand how to memorize faster, we need to know: 1. What is the forgetting curve 2. What is memory playback 3. And what is the effect of testing. So, if I could draw a graph of how much information you will remember from this presentation after you watch it, then this graph would look something like this: In the first 20 minutes after viewing, you would have forgotten 40% of the information you saw. In 1 hour you would have 45% left. In a day you would have forgotten about 70% (you would only remember 30%). In a week you would have 23% left. And over time, you would only have 15% of the information that you remember from this presentation. And I will clarify that this does not mean that if you look at this presentation again you will not have the feeling "Ah, I know everything here, I remember it all!" I'm talking about your ability to reproduce this information yourself, as if you were trying to retell the content of this presentation to your friend. This graph is called the forgetting curve and it was first built back in 1885 by Hermann Ebinhaus, a German psychologist. The numbers in this graph may vary depending on the information in question. It could be a novel or some kind of technical textbook. But in any case, the dynamics remains true regardless of the type of information. On the first day, we forget a significant amount of information that we just received. This is because this is a natural biological process and it's great that the brain can get rid of unnecessary information.