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You forget most new things within days — unless you come back.
Memory fades on a curve. Reviewing just as it starts to fade — after a day, then a few days, then a week — locks it in with far less total study.
Try this today: Schedule three short reviews of today's lesson: tomorrow, day 3, day 7.
Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology (the forgetting curve) — Hermann Ebbinghaus (1885)
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Expecting to teach something makes you learn it better.
In a 2014 experiment, students told they would later teach a passage recalled more of it, and organised it better, than students told they would only be tested.
Try this today: Study tonight's topic as if you must explain it to a friend tomorrow.
Expecting to teach enhances learning and organization of knowledge in free recall of text passages — John F. Nestojko, Dung C. Bui, Nate Kornell, Elizabeth L. Bjork (2014)
Memory & Cognition, vol. 42 (2014)
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Rereading feels like learning. It mostly isn't.
Pulling an answer out of memory strengthens it far more than reading it again. Quizzing yourself feels harder, and that effort is exactly what makes it stick.
Try this today: Close your notes and write down everything you remember.
Make It Stick — Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel (2014)
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