How To Remember Better by Not Finishing Learning
Take your time to learn and reap better results
If we remembered everything we saw, read, or heard, we’d break down in an instant. There are cues around us all the time, triggering our brain to make instant decisions on whether each is important enough to be remembered.
Unfortunately, deciding something is important doesn’t mean our brain will agree. It won’t make a note saying:
“To remember forever”.
Our brain is testing us day after day. It first remembers bits and pieces before letting the information disappear quickly. Our job is to command the brain to retain what matters. The brain lets go of some parts until we need to train it to remember it again. And again and again.
Luckily, there are methods to force the brain to remember. Here is the most simple you can implement today.
Percolate the Content
The Zeigarnik Effect describes the fact that people remember unfinished or interrupted tasks better than completed tasks. If you stop cleaning the dishes halfway in the morning, you’re more likely to remember what’s left to clean until you finish in the evening.
Similarly, if you’re writing a paper about investment in the healthcare sector…
