How to Study Smarter Not Harder and Retain More in Less Time
“No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.” ―L. Frank Baum
Studying becomes valuable when you can remember what you’ve learned so you can apply it where you most likely need it. We’ve been trained on rote learning where we repeat the material over-and-over until we remember it so we can correctly answer upcoming exams.
A lot of us probably stood out during those tests but if you try to answer those questions again, you most likely forgot about them.
The reason:
Your brain failed to create necessary connections in order to remember information.
The brain is comparable to a bookshelf. Imagine walking into a library filled with thousands of books. You are about to borrow a book and the genres are all mixed up together. There are no labels and catalogs to indicate where they are. I bet you would be wasting time looking and end up being frustrated that would prompt you to … “abort the mission.”
That’s how equally frustrating when you want to remember something you’ve studied yet you could not pull it in times of use.
