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Memory is a recontruction
It's not a photographic recording and it changes over time: our brains are forever rerecording those memories, making them far more error prone.
Recalling a long-term memory brings it back into our short-term memory, which essentially gives it new context.
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Repetition
The repetition of tasks (reading, or saying words over and over) continues to be the best method for transforming short-term memories into long-term ones. To do that, we have to retrain our minds to focus on one task at a time.
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47/times a day
...is the number we check our phones on a daily basis.
And nearly double that if we’re between the ages of 18 and 24.
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2 kinds of memories
- explicit, created through conscious experience;
- implicit, which form when past experiences affect us, sometimes without our knowledge.
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Incomplete tasks: What happens inside the brain
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