In the previous lesson, we learned how to create a model in Mongoose and touched on how to use a basic find method to retrieve documents from the database. In this lesson, we will dive deeper into the find method and learn how to use it to find documents in Mongoose. ## Introduction The find method is used to retrieve documents from a collection in Mongoose. It is similar to the SELECT statement in SQL. The most basic usage of the find method takes no arguments and returns all the documents in the collection. Here is an example: