Justin Skycak(@justinskycak):Learning is a positive change in long-term memory, and long-term memory doesn’t change much when you just “follow along,” even if you understand perfectly. It’s the act of retrieving information from memory that really slows its decay. If you don’t practice retrieval, then the information quickly dissipates. It stays with you only briefly in short-term memory – just long enough to trick you into thinking it’ll stick with you for the long term, when it’s really on the way out the door. But, of course, if you don’t check that it’s there, you won’t notice that it’s gone.

2026.09.20 03:54

Learning is a positive change in long-term memory, and long-term memory doesn’t change much when you just “follow along,” even if you understand perfectly. It’s the act of retrieving information from memory that really slows its decay. If you don’t practice retrieval, then the information quickly dissipates. It stays with you only briefly in short-term memory – just long enough to trick you into thinking it’ll stick with you for the long term, when it’s really on the way out the door. But, of course, if you don’t check that it’s there, you won’t notice that it’s gone.

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