Spaced repetition is progressive overload for your brain.

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Most people think forgetting is the enemy of learning.

It’s actually part of the process.

If you review something immediately, your brain doesn’t have to work very hard.

But if you wait until the memory is fuzzy…

Now you have resistance.

You’re pulling information out of long-term memory.

That effort is the rep.

Spaced repetition is basically progressive overload for your brain.

The goal isn’t to make review easy.

The goal is to make yourself strong enough that what used to be hard becomes easy.

The wait creates the weight.

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