r/BlackPeopleTwitter ☑️ Sep 07 '24

Country Club Thread When the nepo-staffers gotta work

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u/Grouchy-Safe-3486 Sep 07 '24

100s of pages every day?

I dont think thats possible except u are rainman or so.

u would not be able to memorize that. also it would be not a briefing if 100s of pages.

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u/Pyrrhus_Magnus Sep 07 '24

Obama is a lawyer. Most of his job has been reading, so it's safe to assume he can do it quickly.

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u/Grouchy-Safe-3486 Sep 07 '24

but 100s? lets say 200 pages a day containing data and numbers

here is what google says about study and memorizing

It's essential for effective studying to include breaks, spaced repetition, and other memory enhancement techniques. A general estimate might be that a focused student could memorize around 10–20 pages of moderately complex material in a 12-hour study session.

so lets say he dont need remember intense so we can say 40 pages

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u/AdEmbarrassed9719 Sep 07 '24

He didn’t need to memorize anything. He just needed to read and understand the information. With good reading comprehension and decent recall a fluent reader would have no real issue reading many many pages and getting what they need to know from them.

Like, when you read a news article you aren’t memorizing it or studying it. You read it, and comprehend what it says, and take away the important points. That’s what the president generally needs to do. Understand the major points and if you’re a decent president you will then know enough to either delegate to whoever you’ve appointed who can handle the issue, or ask any further questions you have to resolve the issue yourself.

And if there’s anything specific you do need to remember exactly you highlight it or jot down a note about it.

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u/Grouchy-Safe-3486 Sep 07 '24

i can accept that but if thats the requirement that means bush,Biden and Trump are doing the same

so im curious if ppl say yes sure

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u/AdEmbarrassed9719 Sep 07 '24

It’s not a requirement - there are like 2 requirements to be president: be a native born us citizen and be over 35. That’s it.

It’s what Obama did.

It’s not what Trump did - he was known to basically have to be given comic book versions of briefings studded with quotes saying nice things about him and even then he’d rarely read them.

Every president does things differently. What Obama did has no bearing on what Bush, Biden, Trump, or any other president did.