SnippetI’ve been advocating the use of spaced repetition and active recall for quite a while now. But yesterday, after chatting with Justin Sung (and watching this video).. .. I realized I lost track of one side of the equation. Let me explain.. Spaced repetition and active recall are retrieval practices. Retrieval is when we retrieve knowledge that was previously stored in long term memory. But how does it get there in the first place? When we read or hear something, it goes first our short-term memory (STM). In 99.9% of cases, it’s forgotten seconds later. This is a good thing. We don’t want to remember every detail of every day life. Our short term memory can only hold 7 items at the same time. So either you forget it, or you have to commit it to long-term memory (LTM). The process of moving items from STM to LTM is called encoding. notion image As the word suggests, there are many different ways to encode information and store it in LTM. The encoding you choose matters a lot for how well you remember it. If you store isolated single items in LTM, they will be forgotten relatively quickly. In terms of the forgetting curve (see below), the initial decline will be steep. As I mentioned elsewhere, spaced repetition and active recall will make the forgetting curve decline much slower, so you remember for longer.
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