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I’ve never remembered anything by memorization. Only at school and university for exams, and only to promptly forget it one week later. The stuff that I have re

by jhrmnn 3y ago

I’ve never remembered anything by memorization. Only at school and university for exams, and only to promptly forget it one week later. The stuff that I have remembered for years I learned organically by using it, as part of some mental process, by embedding it in some larger structure. Be it coding, physics, or history. So I think this is a fairly individual matter

FL33TW00D 3y ago
I highly doubt this is an individual matter. Cramming (massing) for exams is literally the antithesis of SRS. Look into Andy Matuschaks work: [Dwarkesh Podcast](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmeRQN9z504 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmeRQN9z504) [How to write good prompts](https://andymatuschak.org/prompts/ https://andymatuschak.org/prompts/)
kiba 3y ago
That's spaced repetition in a nutshell.
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