That's right. You train to recall, by recalling. This was a big revelation for me when I studied mnemonics. Information can flow in two directions: into your b

That's right. You train to recall, by recalling. This was a big revelation for me when I studied mnemonics. Information can flow in two directions: into your brain, and out from your brain. It is the act of repeatedly retrieving the info from your brain that strengthens your memory of that info, not the repeated input of that info into the brain.