Have you ever read something interesting or learned something through a video or class that you thought would be helpful but days later you forgot what you learned and failed at getting value from your learning investment?
I know it’s happened to me…far too often!
This phenomenon is called, “The Forgetting Curve” coined by Herman Ebbinghaus in the 1880’s.
So what do you do about it? There are many tactics to consider and probably thousands of articles and hundreds of books on the topic.
Recently I came across the topic on The Huberman Lab 🥼 🧪: Optimal Protocols for Studying & Learning .
His podcast focuses on sharing peer reviewed scientific studies to identify the most impactful approaches on various topics including health and learning.
For this topic of maximizing your learning and limiting what you forget, he shared that testing is a “strongly supported tool..in the peer-reviewed literature about how students can learn information better…”
Should we “test” it out?
Watch this video that shares a framework for behavior change.
Now take this quiz related to what’s covered in the video.
Your results from the quiz aren’t as important to whether or not you remember and learned what’s covered in the video as the actual act of testing.
Where else could you apply this concept, even just with self-testing?
Oh and by the way, Andrew also highlights in this episode the importance of sleep 💤 to learning. So get a good night’s rest!
Learn In The Flow Of Life
Jason
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