Congratulations for your article, really deep and practical ta the same time. I liked to me. I will search now more articles from you.

But, said this, i must disagree a little with you. I don’t think that you “forget” so easily what you read or see. It’s also true that our mind neither record our experiences exactly as a camcorder.

Our mind works in another way. In fact, ONLY for understand what we are reading we MUST to have some previous knowledges BUILT (not stored!) in our mind. Easy example: if you don’t know how to read some language (eg. english) you cannot understand a blog article in such language!

But, in fact, the thing is more complex: not only you must to have some previous abilities/knowledges for understand a new article, but furthermore you probably must to “modify” them for “make a place” for the new info.

Easy example: you are reading new historical facts that are against your previous knowledges about some historical question. You have 2 options: refuse the new data or review your previous data and try to understand what exactly was wrong on it… because probably not ALL the data you had was wrong.

I’m sorry if my explanation is hard to understand… i’m not native english writer, and the topic of our conversation is a bit complex

In any case, for recap, we BUILT our knowledge and everey day every moment our knowledge evolve!! is like a live ent, really…! you can read in psychological studies, things like our memory about our own personal past is completely “deformed” by our mind. And in fact, our memory really is not useful for REMEMBER EXACTLY FACTS, it’s an smart and sophisticated system of ASSIMILIATION of the most interesting aspects of our experience for traduce it in terminal and action terms, just as you precisely propose!!! ))

So, don’t worry, Ajay, natively our mind trend to take from the experience (see, read, hear, discuss, etc..) anything “understandable” in that moment for us and specially USEFUL for our habitual and actual activities… It’s a rule of survival !

So, in this point is on i disagree: we forget 80% every day what learned. Mmmm… probably the person who make the study understand the “memory” as a camcorder machine, but really is not a real perception of how run our memory/mind.

I find more correct say that we can take more or less profit with one article or other we read, or with one discussion or other we have, and then the best tip could be: to take as much “sources of information interaction” as you can get in a day/week, and probably (almost sure!) we will take some profit… sometimes a great and revolutionary transform of our knowledge, and sometimes little changes which someday will let a great change.

I love be an Information Junkie

Cheers!
And i apologise by the extension of my comment.
SERGI