Welcome to episode 511 of the Divine Intervention Podcasts. In today's podcast, I'm going to be addressing a topic titled Reading and Retaining Information, How to Read and Retaining Information. This is something I've gotten so many questions from people long, so I just figured I would make a short podcast on some very

practical approaches to mastering information, basically. So without further ado, I'm just going to

jump right into it. And, you know, I guess before I jump into it, if you're taking step one to

step three or complex one to three, I have a few classes coming up this week that will be of benefit to you this week and next week and the week after that.

So I guess maybe two weeks after that.

So I have a two and a half hour NBME test taking strategies class.

It's for step one to step three taking place this Thursday in the evening.

And then on Friday I have a four-hour biostatistics class also for step one to three.

On Saturday, I have a five-hour social sciences, quality improvement, healthcare systems, and ethics class, also for step one to step three.

And then next week, from Monday to Saturday, I have a 20-hour step-two, step-three course.

It's also for Complex 2 and 3. And then in the first week of March, I do have a 25-hour step-1 class.

These classes are not lectures. The way they work is they're over Zoom. They're usually held in the

evenings. And I use clinical scenarios to teach you the concepts, exam style questions,

help you make integrations and really help you understand the path of physiology. So if you're

interested, shoot me an email through the website. I'll give you some more information.

Okay. So in terms of practical approaches to reading and retaining information, I think the very

first thing is to discuss some principles,

and then after that I'll give some specifics.

So as I'm discussing the principles, I will also give some specifics.

But the very first thing,

very first important principle that I think many people lose side of with studying.

And this ends up being the problem for many people is that they don't start

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