Although this finding could lead us to conclude that studying something new does not make sense, because sooner or later (especially earlier) we will end up forgetting practically everything, this same German psychologist also asserted that as memories are consolidated, t...

According to Ebbinghaus, and with the way he modeled the forgetting curves (a decreasing logarithmic form), every time something new is learned, a large percentage is forgotten in the hours that follow. 

However, that trend changes if we repeat what we study sp...