> The old spark returned! It was fun again! I breezed through a chapter on transcription, and had no trouble banging through the homework immediately afterward.

> The old spark returned! It was fun again! I breezed through a chapter on transcription, and had no trouble banging through the homework immediately afterward. Not only did I understand it better as I went, I was having more fun. Unfortunately, fun and ease is not synonymous with effective use of learning time. Novelty can be a good motivator for initial learning, but without spaced repetition retention is lower. People love the feeling of mastery, so doing the reading and homework in quick succession is a great form of dopamine. IMO you can either bite the bullet and recognize most of what you read will be forgotten in a year, or recognize that most of learning is boring. When I ran through a stats textbook last summer, the authors clearly had spaced repetition in mind. Each chapter was divided into subsections with small problem sets as you read, and an end-of chapter question bank covering chapter contents (and then a cliff-notes chapter summary at the end). Each of the three major sections included a comprehensive question bank that are basically an exam. End result is that with a pace of about 10 pages per day, you'd do some reading and some problem solving, but every few days you'd need to reach back in your head to cover pages you read a few days ago. The end of chapter homeworks were often much slower going than the question sets sprinkled in, and the exams were equally rough. To supplement that, every weekend I'd go through chapters completed that week and add some Anki cards. I don't necessarily need to know how to rapidly calculate correlation, as much as feel confident I can re-learn it later if I need to because I did so once already.