The Forge Guide to Reading Better

How to Remember More of What You Read

And why your brain makes it so easy to forget

Emily Underwood
Forge
Published in
5 min readJan 22, 2020

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Illustration: George(s)

ItIt was only around 5,000 years ago that the human brain made a major breakthrough: Building on neural circuits that could already interpret scratches on clay tablets and the symbols in cave paintings, it developed the capacity to link the…

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Emily Underwood
Forge
Writer for

Freelance writer and contributing correspondent at Science magazine. Website: https://emily-underwood.com/