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#231 - Ali Abdaal - How To Learn & Remember Anything, Fast
Modern Wisdom
The Third Principle of Space Repetition
Third principle that i as talking about is one that's called space repetition. The idea of space repetition is that it combats the forgetting curve. Back in the 18 hundreds, there was this dude called ebbing house who made himself memorize a bunch of completely nonsense words to see how much he could brute force into his memory. He plotted out how long it took him to forget each of these words as he memorized them. And if we repeat the subject by testing ourselves on it, and then by looking it up if weif we got it wrong, that takes us back up to a hundred % memory. But crucially, the more we do that, the slower this Curve decays
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