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As for maintaining/reviewing, forgetting things is actually an excellent filter to see what pieces of knowledge are useful to you, and perhaps concentrate more
by ivanhoe 9y ago
As for maintaining/reviewing, forgetting things is actually an excellent filter to see what pieces of knowledge are useful to you, and perhaps concentrate more on that in future. The stuff that you've forgot are the things that you just didn't ever needed. IMHO just let it go, let you brain do the garbage collection. You never really forget everything about the subject, all the basic concepts are remembered (even if you can't easily recall them) and if the need arises you'll just re-learn it.
- projektir 9y agoI think this only works if your memory is sufficiently long term. My memory is very poor and I forget things quickly so I constantly find myself having to relearn things (for instance, relearning data structures and algorithms for interviews).
- ivanhoe 9y agoThat's because you never actually use them, other than for interviews (sad but true). Happens to me too, I used to know many back at school, and now I can recall just those that I use for work at least once in a 6 months or so. For everything else I usually remember some basics, but just barely enough to be able to quickly google what I need. And then you just refresh the memory when needed. It's like back in the days when hdd were expensive, so we all were zipping our files when not used to save space - and then you unpack them when you need them :)