Our brains can only hold so much information at once. When there's too much "information overload," we tend to get distracted easily and not retain what we're learning.
"Working memory is what brain scientists call the short-term store of information where we hold the contents of our consciousness at any given moment — all the impressions and thoughts that flow into our mind as we go through the day."
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