/lit/ - Literature

>>10846119

Read more, different works. Eventually things start clicking. Stop trying to memorize particular data, what you want is to actually build up "your own" thoughts insofar as they are an amalgamation of what you have previously read.

You will not learn anything from individual pieces of information, only by linking many pieces together inside your head. That requires taking in A LOT of it because our average efficiency is actually not that high.

With time and maturity you will start getting better at this, until it finally comes to the point you can read and learn from a single essay or from a single book. Until then you have to take the long road.

>>10846119
Try reading more actively, for example you could try making notes or rereading central passages

>>10846119
What topic?

>>10846131
>You will not learn anything from individual pieces of information, only by linking many pieces together inside your head. That requires taking in A LOT of it because our average efficiency is actually not that high.

This. You should read books that are about similar topics, and eventually you'll start connecting dots.

>>10846119
>follow along effortlessly
That's your problem mate. Put some effort in.

>>10846119
write

>>10846119
after reading an interesting book, I usually seek out complementary materials i.e. watch an interview with the author, or a lecture on the same topic. This helps to retain information, but it is also important that you are able to formulate most important take-aways from every book, which you read.
However, most important is to re-read stuff.

>>10846119
It will get better in a few years.

>>10846148
>>10846131