How I study a book such as the "Book of Martial Power" and "Facing Violence" is I read it once. I then read it again using hi-liters, post-it tabs and underlining to reinforce what I originally read and what I thought I read gets "adjusted."
When I am done with that then I go through all my hi-lites, etc. and type them into notes within a text editor. I then take those and hand write them into a journal for future reference and study. The act of writing is what a person who relies on the touch sense to encode things into the mind.
I do all this and still find myself saying things like, "ops," "Oh shit," "doah," and "I didn't get that the first time, interesting." I can tell you that reading something the first time has the potential of either not making it into the storage vault of your brain or you miss it entirely or you misinterpret it entirely, etc.
This is a critical thing for my learning, retaining and recalling. I read and typed from facing violence and said all those expletives above as more clarity came ot me. These stages of learning and encoding are progressive and also teach me to allow for human errors because it is as natural as eating, sleeping and waking.
I also will take notice when I get comments. It helps me look things up and make sure my perceptive filtering didn't exclude or rearrange something making my view slightly skewed.
In closing; read, reread, review and write it out to make sure you got it, got it right and got it accurately.
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