Many Beloved Study Techniques Are Fake
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Many beloved study techniques are FAKE:
- Re-reading the textbook
- Highlighting your notes
- Re-copying your notes
They don’t build retention.
Here’s what actually works:
If you want to retain information…
Then you must train your brain to generate the information itself.
You have to reproduce it.
Not just re-consume it.
Sure, everybody knows:
Use it or lose it.
Train it to retain it.
Retrieve it to keep it.
Except, few people actually study that way.
You have to solve problems.
And you have to solve them without looking at your notes or following an example.
If you don’t retrieve it, you don’t keep it.
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