STEWART BRAND

The spacing effect refers to how we can better remember information if we learn them in multiple sessions with increasingly longer intervals between them. It is nearly impossible to practice something once and expect it to stick.

Every time you're learning a new part of a ...

Focusing:

• concentrating intently on sth you're trying to learn
• sth you're rather familiar with -> thought moves smoothly as if it's traveling along a familiar, nicely paved road

Diffuse thinking:

• more rel...

• If you're trying to build new habits and skills, making every step of the way an easily achievable 2-minute chunk, will make you more likely to do it over and over again.
• The 2–Minute Rule works for big goals as well as small goals because of the inertia of life. Once y...