It's not bad, but you're limiting yourself "out the gate" so to speak. If you really want to explore memory and learning you must study and practice (self-)hyp

It's not bad, but you're limiting yourself "out the gate" so to speak. If you really want to explore memory and learning you must study and practice (self-)hypnosis. Most of what we think we know about how the brain and mind work is wrong. E.g. memory: "our working memory has a maximum capacity of roughly 4" is not an absolute rule. Your brain, right now as you read this, is tracking 100,000's of variables and recording a trace of everything you are seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, and doing. Almost all of this is done unconsciously, and for good reason. Anyhow, you can learn to have better "interfaces" to your automatic unconscious abilities and leverage them to e.g. remember instantly and durably any mathematical equation, etc. - - - - As an aside, the strategy you sketched out at the start of your article would be workable if you have great recall, however an even more better strategy would be to recapitulate the discoveries of physics in roughly historical order. Your understanding of quantum mechanics would be much deeper and richer, and you would be following a story (an epic story made up of so many fascinating smaller stories, and one that is still going on! Albeit things have calmed down this last century or so, but no one thinks we have reached the climax yet.) That would be the way to do it: start with the Greeks and the Alchemists and proceed to follow the trail(s) of how we as a species sussed out the mysteries of the physical Universe.