This recommendation,”Treat it like you’re a literary agent or movie producer pitching the lecture at an important meeting,” reminds me some of what Luther said about learning.

In order to learn something find 25 people to teach it to.

Keep creating,
Mike

This is also a great way to remember important conversations or meetings.

Definitely…

This should be the default study method of high school students

An interesting thought experiment: what would happen if at the end of every high school class period, each student, in order to leave the classroom, had to tell a 3 - 5 story about what they had just heard. I wonder if the test scores would jump significantly.

Great advice Cal. I find that re-writing my notes after a single lecture helps to group main ideas and important facts that the professor outlined

Re-writing notes, as you note, work well too. Talking out loud is less time consuming, however, making it more attractive to some.

But I can see it being one of those things that would be easy to forget to do…so you would HAVE to do a 30 day trial or something like that just so that you wouldn’t forget it.

Not a bad idea. Since you’re a student, however, instead of 30 day trial, do “first exam trial.” That is, try it in a class until your first exam in that class.

Cal, this will work great for me coming out of business meetings, especially on complex projects.

I never thought of its application to other spheres. Sounds like a cool extension.

One reason why the story telling method is so little known may be because it is fairly simple and really somewhat easy-going and this contradicts the myth that studying must be hard.

Well said. As I’ve talked about before, too many college students suffer under the myth of the genius or the grind. You either have to be Good Will Hunting or stay up all night.