Most people read books to finish them. Richard Feynman had a better way to learn from books.
Here’s his 4 step technique.
1. Read/learn the concept
Read a chapter, article, or section normally, but don’t try to memorize every sentence.
2. Close the book and explain it
Without looking back, explain the idea in your own words, as if you were teaching it to a 12-year-old.
For example, instead of remembering:
“Compound interest is the addition of interest to the principal…”
Say:
“Compound interest means your money earns interest, and then that interest also starts earning interest.”
3. Find the gaps
Whenever you get stuck, use complicated words, or realize you can’t explain something clearly, you’ve found a knowledge gap.
Go back to the book only to fill that gap.
4. Simplify and create an analogy
Explain it again using simple language, examples, or analogies.
Then stop.
For reading books faster
You can turn it into this 10-minute reading loop:
Read → Close book → Recall → Explain → Check → Simplify
For every 5–10 pages, ask yourself:
* What was the main idea?
* What are the 3 most important things I learned?
* Can I explain this without looking?
* How does this connect to something I already know?
* Where would I actually use this?
The important part is closing the book and retrieving the information. Simply rereading and highlighting creates familiarity, but active recall forces your brain to actually retrieve the knowledge.
A powerful combination is:
Feynman Technique + active recall + spaced repetition.
That will generally give you much better long-term retention than simply reading a book repeatedly.
“In the end,
I believe there is nothing we must do to be loved.
We spend our lives trying to look more beautiful, more intelligent.
But I've understood two things:
Those who love us see us with their hearts and give us qualities
beyond the ones we truly have.
And those who refuse to love us will never be satisfied with all our efforts.
Yes, truly.
I believe it is important to let our imperfections be.
They are precious,
for they help us understand those who see us with the heart.”
— Frida Kahlo
“I still believe that a human being does not die all at once; rather, we die in pieces. Each time a friend departs, a part of us dies. Each time a lover leaves, a part of us dies. Each time a dream is shattered, a part of us dies. Then comes the final death; it finds all those parts already dead, gathers them, and departs.”
— Khalil Gibran
Indonesia is destroying 2,000,000 hectares of one of the world’s most important & biodiverse rainforests in South Papua for sugarcane. 😡
The world’s BIGGEST deforestation project. 🤬
Everyone should be SO angry about this. It is OUR planet and we are losing wildlife forever!
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Saviez-vous qu’une cuillerée de miel suffit à maintenir une personne en vie pendant 24 heures
Saviez-vous qu’une des premières pièces de monnaie au monde portait le symbole d’une abeille
Saviez-vous que le miel contient des enzymes vivantes
La meilleure façon de manger du miel est avec une cuillère en bois; si vous n’en trouvez pas, utilisez une cuillère en plastique.
Saviez-vous que le miel contient une substance qui aide le cerveau à mieux fonctionner
Saviez-vous que le miel est l’un des rares aliments de la planète qui peut à lui seul soutenir la vie humaine
Saviez-vous que les abeilles ont sauvé des personnes de la faim en Afrique
Saviez-vous que le propolis produit par les abeilles est l’un des antibiotiques naturels les plus puissants
Saviez-vous que le miel n’a pas de date d’expiration
Saviez-vous que les corps de certains des plus grands empereurs étaient enterrés dans des objets en or et recouverts de miel pour éviter la décomposition
Saviez-vous que le terme « lune de miel » vient de la tradition des époux de consommer du miel pour la fertilité après le mariage
Saviez-vous qu’une abeille vit moins de 40 jours, visite au moins 1 000 fleurs et produit moins d’une cuillère à café de miel, mais pour elle c’est une vie de travail
Merci, précieuses abeilles...
This is interesting and I would definitely like to hear more from this man. I see both sides of this issue. Anyone know him or seen any more videos of him? What are your thoughts on Data Centers?
In the 1990s, Canadian ecologist Suzanne Simard made a groundbreaking discovery that challenged everything we thought we knew about how forests work. While studying managed forests in British Columbia, she noticed something puzzling: when birch trees were removed to promote the growth of valuable Douglas firs, the firs did not flourish as expected, they actually struggled and grew more slowly.
Determined to understand why, Simard traced the movement of nutrients using radioactive carbon isotopes. What she found was astonishing. Trees were actively sharing resources through vast underground fungal networks known as mycorrhizae. These delicate, thread-like fungi connect the roots of different trees across the forest floor, forming a complex web that allows the exchange of carbon, water, nutrients, and even chemical signals, sometimes between entirely different species.
She discovered that older, larger trees often serve as central "hubs" or "mother trees," supporting younger saplings by redistributing vital resources and helping the entire ecosystem remain resilient. When these key trees are removed, the underground network weakens, and the health of the remaining forest declines.
Simard’s research overturned the traditional Darwinian view of forests as battlegrounds of ruthless competition. Instead, she revealed a far more sophisticated reality: forests operate as highly cooperative systems where trees communicate, support one another, and even warn neighboring trees about threats like drought, disease, or insect attacks.
What appears to the human eye as a silent, still forest is, in truth, a vibrant, interconnected living network, built not on isolation and rivalry, but on deep connection and mutual aid.
“The Reason we have a Thousand Military bases is not for military power, they're lily pads for Smuggling. That's how CIA smuggles GOLD, GUNS, DRUGS, CASH & SMALL CHILDREN for the Elites in the United States. War is a profit Center.”
—Former CIA officer Robert David Steele (2017)
Honestly, I didn’t know much about Joe Felz, but the more I learn since his untimely death, the more it’s clear to me that his body of work was absolutely a HUGE THREAT to the powers that be, and that must be highlighted.
Joe was about to upload a treasure trove of some of the most important books in antiquity, including older/lost versions of the Bible (specifically containing the Apocrypha), books about Freemasonry, free energy, and other important ancient writings to a digital archive, unaltered, for the world to see and preserve.
What is most shocking, is that he was all set to release this archive publicly 72 hours before his untimely death on August 3rd, and we still aren’t sure yet how he died. However, Joe did say that if anything “suddenly happened to him” to keep digging, so he was absolutely aware that he was kicking the hornets nest…
Thankfully, he stated that should anything happen to him, there are contingencies in place to make sure this vital information gets out.
In this video, he shows in detail how ancient versions of the Bible had Palestine listed instead of the modern state of Israel, and how Israel is referring to a “tribe”, not a country. Can’t imagine how damaging that is to current narratives…
Joe was also a loud advocate for free energy, and we all know what happens to people who go too far down that rabbit hole…
I also don’t think it’s a coincidence at all that we just found out that AI companies are buying up books just like this in mass, digitally copying them, de-binding them and then shredding them.
They are actively trying to erase/re-write our history, and anyone getting in the way of that, would absolutely be a huge target. Joe had well over 1 million followers on social media between TikTok, Instagram, Facebook.
It’s clear that some very powerful individuals wanted Joe gone, and it’s also troubling to see that many of his followers suspect his own girlfriend. In the comments of his videos there seems to be a significant amount of his followers likening her to a possible “Erika Kirk” type. She has apparently taken over his pages and claims he didn’t know what he was talking about etc…Yikes.
Not saying for sure and I’m just going off what his followers are pointing out. I don’t know enough about the situation, but sadly it wouldn’t surprise me.
Also, VERY interesting to note is that the last Perez Hilton post before his mutilation tirade is about Joe Felz. Honestly, that is WAY too on the nose for me….Knowing what we know about how these people operate, that is extremely eye-opening.
Rest in peace with the Lord, Joe.
Share all of Joe’s work as much as you can before they take it all down! Don’t let his work be in vain.
The Sulala animal shelter held out as long as they could, but Israel's demonic ambitions reached their area in 2024. They had no way to transport all the dogs, so they left the gates open and opened every bag of food they had to sustain the dogs as long as possible. The dogs didn't bolt for the gates to run away, nor did they stay to eat all the food at their disposal. They chased the people who cared for them. This was the scene.
Two of those dogs miraculously traveled over ten miles and found the shelter family. I suspect most of them have been killed or starved to death, just like the humans have been killed and starved.
Saeed, his son Saed, and other family members are still caring for stray animals in Gaza, and have set up medical points for pets and working animals. But this scene still haunts them.
It's a sense of failure. I feel it too. So many of us do. Failure to protect the most vulnerable in this world.
There is still an entire society, besieged for twenty years, held in a concentration camp that doubled as a weapons testing laboratory for Jewish supremacists, then an extermination zone for the past three years. They have no real way to fight back. And we've all just watched. Day in and day out. People, young and old, burned alive, incinerated, evaporated by weapons we can't comprehend, starved, plagued with disease, terrorized, degraded, amputated, shredded, humiliated, destroyed.
The love of the Ahlul Bayt is meant to be transformational, not ceremonial.
If you go through all of Muharram and Safar and you still don't feel the need to better yourself, you're doing it wrong.
Shīʿism has long placed the intellect (ʿaql) at the center of religious life. This is reflected in one of its foundational ḥadīth collections, al-Kāfī, which opens not with ritual law, which certainly does feature later in the collection, but with Kitāb al-ʿAql wa al-Jahl (The Book of Intellect and Ignorance). The placement is clearly deliberate and aims to teach us something fundamental about the faith. Before discussing law, worship, or even ethics, the tradition first establishes the faculty by which they all these dimensions are to be understood.
It is, therefore, unsurprising that Shīʿī seminaries became some of the last institutions to preserve philosophy, logic, theology, and the rational sciences in the Muslim world. In our tradition, reason is not viewed as a rival to revelation, but as one of the means through which revelation can be understood, defended, and articulated.
This is also why true philosophical and mystical Shīʿī scholars never felt compelled to reject an idea simply because it originated outside the Islamic tradition or their sectarian identity. From Aristotle to Ibn Sīnā, ideas were examined on their merits, retaining what was true and discarding what was false. Such openness is the clear effect of the wisdom-based teachings of the Ahl al-Bayt.
Once, Imam al-Hasan ibn Ali sat down to eat a meal. A dog approached, sat down in front of him, and gazed at the food. The Imam began taking a morsel of food for himself and then giving a morsel to the dog, alternating back and forth.
One of his companions or a passerby, seeing this, said, "O son of the Messenger of Allah, shall I drive this dog away from your food?"
Imam Hasan replied, "No, leave it." He then explained his reason: "Leave him, for I am ashamed before Allah Almighty that a living creature looks at me while I eat, and I do not feed him."
Kashf al-Ghummah fi Ma'rifat al-A'immah, vol. 2, p. 197