The brain's default mode is to forget as fast as it can. That is what I remember from an Elon M interview with the badgalaxyboy mma podcast The Full Send. If

The brain's default mode is to forget as fast as it can. That is what I remember from an Elon M interview with the badgalaxyboy mma podcast The Full Send. If you have a strong why case your brain will lower the bar to remembering. One old approach to memorizing is the memory palace. I've heard there are institutes dedicated to studying this kind of thing. I don't take many notes. After reading 284 of 362 pages I have set down 606 lines of text in gemini mode on emacs. I group ten pages of reading to one section. The resulting gemini file is viewable through a gemini browser. I have the option to further process my notes to org mode or Texinfo in emacs. Captured drawings can convert to Inkscape SVG or PDF. I use Graphviz to connect the dots of ideas. Learning is easier to retain and improves if you teach what you have learned from the Master. At a guess, short-term and long-term memory, cognition, group consciousness are keywords to search in the field of psychology and information research for more information. Marvin Minsky observed in one of his lectures on Ai that children of varying grades, stages, ages learn well from each other together. To internalize and digest a new idea you can exercise while you think.