You Only Retain 10% of What You Read — Here's Why

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Edgar Dale's 1969 Cone of Learning shows retention doubles when you add hearing (20%), triples with seeing + hearing (50%), and hits 90% when you say and do. The takeaway is brutal: reading is the lowest-retention activity in the entire pyramid.

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