Learning new topics, areas, and stuff takes time and hard work. I know you are ready to put in everything required, but Have you encountered times when you don't recall what you read or learned?

Think of it like a student who has put in all his hard work to learn all the things about the subject before an exam and when he sits in the exam, nothing comes out, and the mind goes blank. It has happened to me, and I know you are also the victim of this disease.

But what if I tell you that you can easily recall and understand something efficiently without even needing extra help?

Yes, Cal Newport, Author of Deep Work, How to Become a Straight-A Student, etc. Describes this approach of active recall and the way to keep the information stored in the brain while learning.

The Technique

The technique is called Pedagogy, sound fancy?

I had used this term because if I had written the simpler version, you might have thought this article was just a waste of time.
The simpler word for Pedagogy is teaching, I know it sounds like you have been scammed for your time.

Teaching is the technique that can be used to recall everything you have learned in the best way, either you teach yourself, a child, your stuffed toys, or the doors and almirah of your room. You just have to learn and use a 5-minute active recall technique to explain the things in your own words.

Again read the above sentence, and check what I have emphasized. Explaining something in your way of understanding will change the way of learning from reading to understanding. Once you become a teacher, you will question everything, even how 2 + 2 = 4 because in the end you will have to teach this thing to yourselves, and when you will teach you will for sure pound on the question.

There's also the Feynman Technique, which is a 4-step learning method originally used by noted American Nobel laureate Richard Feynman.
There are various articles and study material around the technique, surf the internet and you can learn more. Here, the sole purpose of this article was to make you realize, the power of teaching.

Assignment

At last, To get this into your subconscious and make this a part of your daily life. Surf anything you want to learn and give yourselves 5 minutes to explain the thing. Either write an article around it, or make videos, it's your way but do this every time.

Fun Fact: This article is also the implementation of the 5-minute rule.