I Answer Your FAQs on How To Absorb Textbooks Like A Sponge

In this livestream I answer a list of the most frequently asked questions viewers have asked over the years about the technique covered in my popular video "How To Absorb Textbooks Like A Sponge". See the time codes in the description below for ALL the questions covered.

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TIMECODES for Easy Access
00:00 – Introduction
02:17 – Why learning from textbooks is different than reading a novel
03:58 – A quick review of 5-step process
07:17 – How did the original video come about?
12:42 – What if there's no quiz?
13:16 – Answer questions at the end of the chapter?
13:53 – Answer quiz questions as you read?
14:45 – Will this help with upcoming exam?
16:43 – How to use this outside of formal schooling? (I’ve already graduated/taken exams.)
20:48 – Does this technique work for (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, etc.)?
22:24 – I have A.D.D. or ADHD. What should I do?
24:55 – New sponsor that helps with focus & concentration: Neuro Gum.
26:29 – What is ‘Bold’ text?
27:32 – What’s my definition of a paragraph?
29:14 – What should I do about taking notes?
30:54 – Why is it so important to take handwritten notes?
32:56 – Revising your notes. What are the most important things to include?
33:27 – Can’t you just read and remember the stuff in the chapter? Why do all this?
33:45 – I’ve done something like this for years. But I didn’t know if it helped or not.
36:09 – Isn’t this like the SQ3R method?
37:33 – What about using this technique on other types of books?
39:50 – What about feeding this information into ChatGPT?
40:43 – What school or university do I teach at? (How did I get started teaching this stuff?)
47:20 – Why do I still reply to so many comments after all these years?
48:45 – What is my mission statement?
49:02 – What’s the deal with writing on the wall?
50:00 – I’m a ‘one-man-band’ so here’s how I’ll deal with other questions.
50:23 – Where can I find the information about improving my memory?
50:45 – What can you do to support this channel if you like my content?
51:02 – What can you expect from me during the next few months?
52:09 – Wrap up

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I read "How to Remeber People's Names" and it is great material.

[rustyshackleford]

I'm currently going through a dense math text book, therefore I have adapted this technique such that instead of reading entire chapters, I read only a few sections of each chapter.
And this works out because this book has quizzes at the end of each section!

Thank you, Matt DiMaio, I feel very confident that your technique will continue to help me as I go through College!

[priyasankar]

Thank you very much for this❤you are helping a lot of students who are struggling to memorize huge textbooks😂😊I've been loving lot of ur videos, I am a school student from India and my 10th class is going to start 😅your tips are very helpful to us😊

[TheFyreSA]

Hi Uncle Matt! I just found your channel today and watched your 8M view video along with this livestream. Thank you so much for all that you are doing!

Could you possibly elaborate on how you would adapt this method for S.T.E.M. textbooks such as Maths and Physics?

Would it be something like this:
1. Flip through each page and get a lay of the land
2. Take a look at the quiz at the end
3. Go through the bold print and look for definitions and formulas
4. Look at 1st & last sentence of each paragraph? (Not sure if this step would work particularly well for stem?)
5. Do a detailed read through of the chapter while taking notes
6. Attempt practice problems + end quiz

Any input would be greatly appreciated!

[AsaiahBenjamin]

Thanks for the live stream Mr. DiMaio🎉.

[timbuktu]

I cannot say enough good things about Uncle Matts system. When I first tried it I just bounced through several textbooks AND pretty much remembered everything I read. Now I pick up two or three textbooks a year at thrift stores. (A $300.00 book with a price tag of $5.00) There is one caveat. There are some textbooks that are badly written. What can I say? You can't pick a winner ever time.

[timbuktu]

The paragraph question:
Some textbooks are more sidebar than text. It's hard to find the flow of the narrative. Have I mentioned that some textbooks are badly written?

[navneetsinghr]

Matt, I have an exam in 15 days.
I have 3 chapters left which require pure memorization (inorganic chemistry), please recommend what should I do

[_SoumyaRanjanPatra]

Sir, whenever I read a book (textbook, novel, etc), some words come, whose meanings I don't know & I have to search for meanings; which obviously breaks my flow of reading and it also becomes frustrating looking book then looking google for meanings and so on.

So my question : Whether I should read the text and simultaneously search for meanings
Or
Read the chapter at once, then go for meaning of words.
Or
If you have any other solution, please share