How does one absorb information from diagrams?

Hey everyone! This is my first post. I’m an intermediate chess player (although my online performance is lacking compared to my on the board performance), and I really enjoy playing. I’m moving somewhere where I’ll be able to play in tournaments and just recreationally in general. I would like to actually become pretty good, and I’m working my way through a book right now. It’s “Reassess Your Chess” (Silman) but I don’t know how to process it. It seems that a majority of the book is made of diagrams as shown above. When confronted with these, I input it into Lichess board editor and follow along. How can I better understand and actually grasp what is being presented so I can utilize it?

Don't you think it's worthwhile to try and follow the notes by visualizing the moves in your head? Visualization is probably the most important skill a chess player can have--or so Fabiano Caruana has said. So it's well worth your time to try and develop your visualizing "muscle" by practicing with diagrams like the one in your example

I hadn’t really thought about that. I had seen that it is difficult to fully visualize a position and variations unless you’re (very) good, but when you put it as a muscle or skill it does make since to do that.