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I agree repetition is key. But here's what I noticed from personal experience. When I first read something interesting, it might not stick. When reading it aga
by janvdberg 3y ago
I agree repetition is key. But here's what I noticed from personal experience. When I first read something interesting, it might not stick.
When reading it again (say: the same book a year later), knowing I must have read this very interesting thing before, but apparently forgot I more or less have the same reaction as being SURPRISED.
And more often than not THAT is when it really sticks.
This is from anecdotal, personal experience, but being surprised sort of unlocks things in the brain that make things stick (I could go on, on how this would be a biological advantage etc. but that is reaching) and I guess that is what Sivers is pointing at?
- shard 3y agoI read somewhere that it takes ten exposures to a new word before you learn it. After reading that, I started tracking how many times I see a new word before I recall what it means. Unsurprisingly, it falls along a distribution, but for harder words it does take me quite a few exposures before learning it. By the time I learn it, the feeling is often recognition that I have trouble with this word, and boredom that it's this word again. =)
- cruano 3y ago“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson