i keep forgetting everything

  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    If information isn’t transferring from short-term to long-term memory, find some related information you already have in your long-term memory that you can connect the new information to—then you’ll be able to retrieve the new information by association.

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      As I once heard a neuroscientist say, our brains are built to understand, not to remember. Find ways to relate the material to things you already know.