How to Remember Everything you Learn

The best way to remember something forever is to remind it to you 4 times at specific intervals. The best moment to remind you something is when you are about to forget it.

As a rule of thumb, it means you will need a reminder:

after 3 days
after 10 days
after 30 days
after 60 days

How Supermemo Works
Image from Wired

This phenomenon is called the Spacing Effect. According to the Spacing Effect entry on Wikipedia:

The spacing effect refers fact that humans more easily remember items in a list when they are studied a few times over a long period of time ("spaced presentation"), rather than studied repeatedly in a short period time ("massed presentation").

Comments

Sat, 10/11/2008 - 07:07 — Guest

I think some famous Japanese

I think some famous Japanese Psychiatrist promoted it as "memory focal points method".

Sat, 10/11/2008 - 12:44 — Nick

A lot of experts have known about this for a while: the phenomenon was first identified in 1885 by Hermann Ebbinghaus, a German psychologist. It is unclear why educators are still ignoring this very effective method to improve learning.

Mon, 11/17/2008 - 13:49 — Guest

sounds like a good plan !! i

sounds like a good plan !! i will apply it to myself and tell my kids as well !!

Thu, 06/11/2009 - 11:12 — Nick

You can also take a look at

You can also take a look at the Brain Rules from John Medina

It's fascinating: http://www.brainrules.net/the-rules