(Note: this article is heavily influenced by  Augmenting Long Term Memory by Michael Nielsen, combined with The Shallows by Nicholas Carr and research

Anki-fy Your Life - by Moses Liew - About to Learn

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(Note: this article is heavily influenced by Augmenting Long Term Memory by Michael Nielsen, combined with The Shallows by Nicholas Carr and research on spaced repetition. I highly recommend reading the original if you have the time and interest.)

Unlike our working memory, which can only hold about 7 things at a time, our long-term memory is basically limitless. The only bottleneck between these two is the speed at which we can move memories from the working memory to storage.

If we take information in a steady drip, we can transfer the information bit by bit into long-term memory: if we get overloaded, most of the information we scan past gets lost.

Long-term memory isn’t just a warehouse of facts. Brain scientists have found that understanding itself is based on long-term memory, where we store “schemas”, patterns of knowledge that give our thinking depth.

Learning something literally changes our brain. The brain continues to process information long after it is received, and every time we bring a long-term memory back into working memory, the memory evolves.

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