Make connections:

Relate new information to prior information for better learning.

During a second reading, try to connect new information to something you already know.

When you give yourself a few minutes to rest and think about what you just read,  you're allowing your brain to better connect the new information to what you've already done or understood.

You stand a better chance of the new memories being more powerful and easier to retrieve.

One of the benefits of self-explaining is that it helps people see new links and associations. Seeing connections helps improve memory. When we’re explaining an idea to ourselves, we should try to look for relationships.

That’s one of the reasons that a tool like mnemonics works. We’re bett...