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Bowling Alone
Robert D. Putnam
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Make what you read
part of what you know.
The book ends. The ideas don’t have to. Answer short questions about what you’ve read, save the ideas you want to keep, and revisit them over time.
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“To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.”
Try it · An everyday economics idea
Choose an answer first, then check it.
That’s right. You gave up the pay from the shift.
Not quite. The answer is the pay you gave up by not working.
Opportunity cost is the value of the next-best alternative you give up. Here, that’s the paid shift you could have taken.
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The pay you gave up by not working.
Opportunity cost is the value of the next-best alternative you give up. Here, that’s the paid shift you could have taken.
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Follow your curiosity
It all starts with a book.
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A small habit for big ideas
Read. Reflect. Remember.
Read something interesting
Follow your curiosity—a book, an article, or an idea that makes you want to know more.
Reflect on what you read
Pause to consider what it means, how it connects to what you know, and what you want to remember.
Come back to it, now and then
Revisit those ideas with a few thoughtful questions to help them become part of your memory.
Why it works
Remember more, a little at a time.
Answering questions and revisiting ideas over time can help you remember them longer.
Recall, then understand
Try bringing an idea to mind before checking the answer. This is retrieval practice: remembering is part of the learning.
A little now. A little later.
Spaced practice spreads review across time. Today’s Refresh schedules your next review based on how your answers go.
Keep the building blocks close
Return to useful definitions and earlier concepts so you have more to draw on when the next chapter gets interesting.
Books, audiobooks, and the rabbit holes they lead you down.
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