Why Retelling a Story Changes Everything
To our circle of French Story Listeners,
I’ve been reading a book this week called How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens, and one line stopped me mid-page.
He writes that we tend to think we understand what we read — until we try to put it into our own words.
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