The Spacing Effect: How to Improve Learning and Maximize Retention - Farnam Street
We are not taught how to learn in school, we are taught how to pass tests. The spacing effect is a far more effective way to learn and retain information that works with our brain instead of against it. Find out how to use it here.
Learning | Reading Time: 11 minutes The Spacing Effect: How to Improve Learning and Maximize Retention We are not taught how to learn in school, we are taught how to pass tests. The spacing effect is a far more effective way to learn and retain information that works with our brain instead of against it. Find out how to use it here. “Every perception is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.” — Gerald Edelman, Second Nature: Brain Science and Human Knowledge The most important metaskill you can learn is how to learn . Learning allows
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