June 3, 2025- Do you find unless you are very intentional about it that you tend to forget so much of what you thought you had learned in the past week. Research shows that persons lose up to 90% of new information they are learning within a week. If you are honest, you will admit this has happened to you probably many times. A person can even see a movie that they enjoy and within a week or so forget a lot of the things that they saw and maybe even the name of it. This easily occurs in this technological age because there is so much information bombarding us at all times that we can find ourselves reading ,seeing or hearing seemingly countless different things in a very brief period of time . Unfortunately, because this is not how the brain is geared to work and for us to learn, very often very little is learned from information coming in so quickly, and not really being internalized. I might add it is not that a person is supposed to remember everything they encounter whether of major interest or not. That would be unreasonable as a person would be overwhelmed with information. The following are some basic suggestions on what to do with information you want to maintain and use in your life: 1. Control the input you receive 2. Write down in your own words the basic core of information of something that you heard, read or saw that you can then go back and review. The fact you have spent the time to review the information taken in and you now are trying to put in writing what you experienced, gives you a step up on the person who just hears something and then later cannot effectively remember what it was, and maybe not even remember it at all. 3. Utilize technology, including artificial intelligence, to arm you with a ton of information from which you can determine what is the most relevant and what you will focus on and make an intention to learn. This is important in school or in a job requiring new learning, whereby you use the information presented, but very specifically choose things that are of interest and value to you and go over them in your mind to understand what they say and to help you be able to utilize them. 4.Focus on what you have learned and determine what is valuable to you through a combination of thinking about it, talking about it and writing down the key points that you pick up in your mind. This will greatly help you to remember things that are important to you and necessary for you to learn. 5.Repetition is something that has been known about for centuries as something critical if someone wants to learn something. A most simple example is with language, For example, one needs to regularly say words and phrases to the point in the language being learned they become so natural to them that they can effectively communicate in another language. .