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Effective Spaced Repetition

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“To flash conviction on the mind.”

You won’t get smarter by drilling IQ tests or playing the violin. Dual n-back probably won’t improve your working memory. But you can remember anything you choose to with spaced repetition . Spaced repetition is, by far, the most effective cognitive hack I’ve used. It used to be that I’d read a book and afterwards remember almost nothing. Sometimes I’d take Kindle highlights, or notes, but never review them. And I hoped that though I could not necessarily name what I recalled (because whose memory has an index?) that somehow the important information was woven into my knowledge, tacitly. This

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