Prepare your stories, but never memorize your words: listeners lean in when someone speaks to them, not at them.

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• A group with a dominant talker remembers less and remembers his version; giving every member a turn is what makes a shared memory accurate. CRCharan Ranganath25 May 2024
• Reading and listening are only preparation; learning happens by doing, and it consists of failing on the way to mastery. SGSeth Godin26 Mar 2024
• Failing to hear a language's sounds is what makes its words impossible to remember. GWGabriel Wynerby 18 Jul 2019
• Speaking and listening are hardwired into the brain's innate language circuitry, whereas writing and reading are learned skills. PGPhilip Guo16 Jan 2024
• Highlighting, rereading and summarising are poor ways to remember what you have read, and cramming is worse. AMAdam Mastroianni12 Jul 2022

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