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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Good Morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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Speaker 1: Today's tip is to create a closed book summary of

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Speaker 1: what you've just read. Doing this can increase your recall

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Speaker 1: of a text far beyond what reading the same text

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Speaker 1: multiple times can do. Today's tip, like others this week,

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Speaker 1: comes from Amantha Ember's new book time Wise. In this book,

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Speaker 1: she shares tips from other people about how to work

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Speaker 1: well and feel better about time in general. In the book,

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Speaker 1: she cites a study on memory from Jeffrey Carpicky and

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Speaker 1: Janelle Blunt from Purdue University. The researchers divided participants into

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Speaker 1: different groups and ask them to use different methods to

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Speaker 1: study a text. One group was asked to do repeated reviews,

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Speaker 1: reading the material over and over again until they felt

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Speaker 1: they had learned it. The other group was asked to

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Speaker 1: do a free recall, which means they read the text

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Speaker 1: once closed the book and tried to recall from memory

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Speaker 1: what was covered. Then they were tested on the material.

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Speaker 1: They were also asked before taking the test how well

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Speaker 1: they thought they had learned the information. Curiously, people who

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Speaker 1: had reviewed the material repeatedly thought they knew it well,

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Speaker 1: but it turned out they did less well than the

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Speaker 1: folks who read the material once and then spent some

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Speaker 1: time recalling from memory what was covered. So if you

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Speaker 1: want to remember a text well, it helps to write

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Speaker 1: the equivalent of a grade school book report. Now. Later

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Speaker 1: in school we had to write more deep held papers

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Speaker 1: where we advanced the thesis and argued from evidence in

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Speaker 1: the text. But back when you had to do elementary

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Speaker 1: school book reports, you basically were just saying what happened

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Speaker 1: in the book. You wrote that down, And it turns

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Speaker 1: out that writing a basic book report now can help

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Speaker 1: you too. Amantha suggests that when you next set out

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Speaker 1: to read an article or book, tell yourself that when

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Speaker 1: you finish, you will have to write down everything you

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Speaker 1: can remember. Then, when you do finish, open a blank

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Speaker 1: document or grab a sheet of paper and write down

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Speaker 1: a summary. After you do this, if you feel there

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Speaker 1: are elements you are missing, feel free to return to

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Speaker 1: the text. You can write them into your summary or

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Speaker 1: do a second free recall test where you add the

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Speaker 1: details from this your second read. One way to keep

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Speaker 1: yourself accountable for doing this recall is to make a

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Speaker 1: habit of writing summary somewhere like your own blog or site,

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Speaker 1: or for a site like good Reads. But taking the

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Speaker 1: step to recall and reconstruct what is in a book

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Speaker 1: can increase your memory and understanding for anything important That

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Speaker 1: is probably worth the time. In the meantime, This is Laura.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of

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Speaker 1: our time. Hey, everybody, I'd love to hear from you.

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