Justin Skycak(@justinskycak):If you just consume information and don’t practice retrieving it, then you forget almost entirely. This is really obvious if you think about how your brain works in daily life. Have you ever had the experience of being unable to remember something despite repeated exposures, because you keep automatically looking it up from a reference instead of trying to retrieve it from memory? That’s happened to me an embarrassing number of times with addresses, phone numbers, directions, etc. And any books you read, movies you watch – the only ones you remember in proper detail are the ones you periodically think about and replay in your head.

2026.09.20 16:10

If you just consume information and don’t practice retrieving it, then you forget almost entirely. This is really obvious if you think about how your brain works in daily life. Have you ever had the experience of being unable to remember something despite repeated exposures, because you keep automatically looking it up from a reference instead of trying to retrieve it from memory? That’s happened to me an embarrassing number of times with addresses, phone numbers, directions, etc. And any books you read, movies you watch – the only ones you remember in proper detail are the ones you periodically think about and replay in your head.

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