If You Bypass the Lift, You Bypass Learning

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Trying to learn by copying notes is like trying to build strength by letting your spotter lift all the weight for you.

Copying notes might feel like learning because the information is passing through working memory. But the feeling is completely artificial.

Simply having information in working memory is not what increases retention. What really matters is how the information got there.

The action that increases retention is lifting information from long-term memory into working memory.

If you bypass that lift, then you bypass learning.

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