Don't just re-read your notes with a illusion of "I know this" - Deepstash

Don't just re-read your notes with a illusion of "I know this"

On your first reading of something, you extract a lot of unerstanding. But when you do the second reading, you read with a sense of "I know this, I know this". So basically, you're not processing it deeply, or picking more out of it. Often the re-reading is cursory- and it's insidious, because this gives you the illusion that you know the material very well, when in fact there are gaps"

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