Do everything you can to make the material that you need to learn clear, relevant and purposeful, and establish a strong reason for retaining it. The more you know how something will benefit you in the long term, the more likely your memory will prioritize it.
Reducing distractions and other demands – known as your " cognitive load " – should also help with this.
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Cognitive load is the effort used by the working memory to process information. The working memory capacity is limited: If it is overloaded with information, you will fail to understand.
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Take the list of everything you could potentially work on over the next 90 days and then rank them by these criteria.
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