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Dr. Darien Sutton, a board-certified emergency medicine physician and a medical correspondent for ABC News, is sharing his system for remembering new, critical information.
“Everyone has a different method of remembering things – this may be because we all see the world differently. We all learn differently,” Sutton explained this month on TikTok. “So this method may not work for you, but it’s how I remember new information.”
Here are the bullet points in Sutton’s technique, which includes several sets of bullet points.
- Understand the material: “I have to understand it endlessly. I can’t remember it until it makes sense to me,” Sutton said. “Otherwise, it’s just a waste of time.”
- Divide information into topics: “I write it in point-by-point format,” Sutton shared. “Each topic can only have about four or five points.”
- Type the written notes: “Once I’ve written it down on pen and paper, and the information creates a clear path to understanding, I then convert those written notes into printed notes,” Sutton said. He usually writes the information in his notes app or in a Google Doc.
- Summarize the information: “I go for a walk and try to think of a statement that sums up some theme,” Sutton continued. After considering the statement, he records it with a voice memo on his phone. “I continue that process until I have a little folder of voice memos on my phone.”
- Listen to the voice notes: “I hear those sound notes like [they’re] music. I listen to them until I trust them to memory,” Sutton said. He reviews his typed notes as he listens to the voice notes and transfers key information to a small note card with a few dots that he uses to share the information on the air.
“I need a method to remember your method,” one TikTok user joked.
“This method saved me in law school,” wrote one commenter who identified himself as a lawyer. “The goal was to get all of your case summaries on one topic down on one page, and then all the pages on each topic down on one page on the topic.”
“I also put my notes into ChatGPT and then have ChatGPT give me a multiple choice test of the notes,” offered another person.
For his part, brain coach, podcaster and author Jim Kwik suggests learning material “with the intention of teaching it” to someone else.
It’s called the “self-explanation effect,” which involves recalling material, making connections between ideas, and identifying what doesn’t make sense so you can figure out the missing information to share with others.
Dr. Karan Rangarajan, who says Dr. Karan Raj recommends the location method, also called the Memory Palace technique.
Choose a familiar location, such as your home, and place the facts you want to remember in different places within that space.
“To remember facts when you need them, just think of walking through different rooms in your house collecting facts,” Rangarajan said.
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