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Does this feel familiar? 1. You read a book and feel you understood it. 2. Next week, you try to answer a question about it. 3. Surprise: you don't remember the details at all! It's not just embarrassing at a cocktail party: it's a real barrier to learning complex new topics.
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I wonder--do "brain hacks" like this circumvent natural memory optimization? Forgetting the content of an article whose concepts you don't use on a regular basis may be a good thing. As learning hacks improve it may become wise to reserve them for the most important content?
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