How To Remember Things 🌸

... you need two kinds of prior knowledge:

• Knowledge about the subject at hand (math, history, or programming).
• Knowledge about how learning actually works.

When you're weaving in new threads into your pre-existing web of knowledge, you're elaborating.

The more you can explain the way your new learning relates to prior knowledge the more connections you create that will help you remember it later.

Prior knowledge of an event’s outcome anchors the mind towards a certain kind of interpretation of how the event will unfold.

This makes the individual confirm the outcome to fit their existing expectations. If the outcome is entirely different from the expected result, t...