How to Never Forget Anything you read – Elon Musk

I was always really good at school- straight A student and people would say to me “oh that’s easy for you, you’re gifted”, and I always said “no, I’m just more interested”. I was smart because I wanted to learn, and tbh, I never really studied hard or anything. When you’re interested, learning is easy. If you treat learning as a chore, or something you have to do, it’s hard. I don’t believe that some people are smart and others are dumb. Smart people are just more interested, and apply themselves without it being a chore. I’m 58 this year, and I’m still learning. “Every day’s a school day” is my motto.

I'm no genius, but as a child I read a lot. I too read the encyclopedias , guiness book of world records, biographies and autobiographies of people who created or built things. I was one of those kids who hated school, but loved to learn ... about anything. I started out my working career as a welder in a shipyard and a decade later went into software development. I was able to see similarities in building software like building ships. I also realized quickly that dealing with managers or foremen was the same just a different field of play. This has allowed me to be able to be given any task and succeed where many others never get started.

An expert is a person who knows the basics really well.

Musk's divergence from traditional education and his emphasis on self-directed learning, honing specific techniques, and fostering a deep understanding of core concepts are prominently highlighted.

It's really wonderful to come across people who freely share valuable information online. You never know what kind of knowledge you might stumble upon that could have a lasting impact on your life.

Learn how to learn is basically what this video is saying. Diversify your learning

Two things about that: 1. It is never about how much you read abut about what you read content-wise. 2. It is not about memorizing all you have read but about making good sense of what you read.

I don't have Musk's brilliance, but his remarks about the "semantic tree" reminded me of my difficulty remembering things when I was in college, over a decade before the age of personal computers. It was as if I was throwing new knowledge onto a pile of knowledge, and the new knowledge always buried the older knowledge. It was in my head somewhere, but I had no means of retrieving it. I came up with the idea of creating mental file cabinets. New information was neatly placed in folders (and, later, subfolders) of basic information. I always knew where to look for the information I was trying to remember. When I explained my method to a computer scientist who had asked me how I could remember things, his jaw dropped, and he said, "That's how computers work." Around 2005, when I began studying for a master's degree in my spare time, a professor shared his Mind Map program with the class. That's when my jaw dropped. Mind mapping is how the brain learns things. I had been practicing a rough form of mind mapping for decades before I knew anything about creating mind maps.

I totally agree. If I can explain something complicated in a way a 7 yrs old kid understands it, then I know I truly got it down

Doesn’t hurt to be a genius, he’s a person to just admire him and emulate what you can. Like Amadeus, celebrate his brilliance

He was born a genius. Can’t be compared with

I,strongly agree with Elon Musk. Reading was my best and favorite subject in school.

Critical thinking and problem solving in varying degrees are common sense, and it all starts in the home, where you are taught to be curious about the world around you and why things are done the way they are, and to imagine things in your head and manipulate them there, then try to apply it while being critical of the evolving process.

He is what he is. What works for him works for HIM

This man is a Genius and he is also blessed with something which he only know because the way his thoughts and some of the reckless decisions are noteworthy.He is blessed❤

The main point is not reading, because obviously all of us know that for a fact The main point is "boredom led to a lot of reading" That's just a amazing hack if you try to practically apply it and eliminate distractions So that you have no other option but to read

That's how I've always done it, I didn't realise everyone else was doing it differently.

Musk has, without a doubt in my mind, the best hair transplant I've ever seen. Don't try to convince me that money can't buy happiness. That's a meme started by us poors.

Elon did his first 2 years of university in engineering at Queen’s University in Canada. He then transferred to Penn and got his degrees in economics and physics.

This is probably good info on learning in general, but it had absolutely nothing to do with how not to forget what you read ...