You often see people in the reading sphere show you methods on how to remember everything, but is that even a reasonable goal in the first place?

Why should we remember everything? I argue the opposite. That value is found in forgetting. If we can let the irrelevant insight of a book fall out of our memory's bounds, we let the truly important points shine in their place, never drowned out by the flood of information surrounding them.

I also cover how we can apply this theory into our daily reading habits by dividing the ideas we encounter into three categories, then processing them accordingly.

00:001:15 The Curse of Perfect Memory (Solomon Shereshevsky)
1:153:55 Why Remembering Everything is Bad
3:556:12 Actionable Advice to Improve Reading
6:127:40 My Method

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