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My retention from any audio is simply better if I’m doing something other than staring at the screen. On meetings that I’ve listened to while taking a walk, I can think back to specific things on my walk and recall exactly what was being discussed, sometimes months or years later. This holds true for doing housework, yardwork etc. There’s some spatial component of memory that wakes up while I do that. It might look like I’m not paying attention to the meeting at all, but I’m actually paying more attention and getting chores done. Win-win.


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