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The speaker initially relied on highlighting and underlining for learning, a passive method that proved insufficient []. A shift occurred when he realized the power of actively recalling information from memory, rather than just passively reviewing it []. This realization stemmed from observing students and led to the core idea of his first book, "How to Become a Straight-A Student" [, ]. He advocates for actively retrieving information from scratch, as if teaching it to someone else, which he found to be a mentally taxing but incredibly time-efficient and effective learning strategy [, ].
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The speaker initially relied on highlighting and underlining for learning, a passive method that proved insufficient []. A shift occurred when he realized the power of actively recalling information from memory, rather than just passively reviewing it []. This realization stemmed from observing students and led to the core idea of his first book, "How to Become a Straight-A Student" [, ]. He advocates for actively retrieving information from scratch, as if teaching it to someone else, which he found to be a mentally taxing but incredibly time-efficient and effective learning strategy [, ].