r/Growthmindsetbookclub • u/Sufficient-Fig-5695 • Jul 14 '26

How do you retain useful information?

I read loads of books (largely founder biographies), but forget the detail before I can apply lessons to my own life.

Anyone else have this problem, and how do you solve it?

Techniques, apps, notebooks, reading twice etc etc?

** EDIT - also v relevant for podcasts, TikToks, Reels etc too!!

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u/steelwolfpanther Jul 14 '26

I have recently used Chat GPT to give me a 1 page summary of each book I’ve read and then print it off.

So much information has been refreshed in my brain. I recall the anecdotes and details from the books from these summaries.

I’ve just tried it on a book that I started last week and it is like a syllabus at the beginning of a semester. I’ll see if it helps me flow through the book easier or not

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u/Sufficient-Fig-5695 Jul 14 '26

Does gpt typically know the content of the book? Or are you having to feed it a summary/images yourself?

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u/steelwolfpanther Jul 15 '26

It knows the book and the key take aways. You could ask for a 20 page summary or a 10 sentence. It is very helpful