Active Recall
Rereading feels productive but rarely builds durable memory. Active recall — retrieving instead of reviewing — is one of the best-evidenced techniques in learning science. Here’s why, and how to do it.
Forgetting Curve
You finish a chapter feeling like you’ve learned it — and a week later most of it is gone. That’s not a bad memory; it’s the forgetting curve, a predictable pattern of memory decay that applies to almost everyone. Understand its shape and you can bend it, using the two techniques that actually make learning stick.
