Andrew Huberman· PhD
if I had known that testing oneself or being tested soon after exposure to material would have the amount of forgetting even out to a year later I definitely would have saved myself a lot of time
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if I had known that testing oneself or being tested soon after exposure to material would have the amount of forgetting even out to a year later I definitely would have saved myself a lot of time
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it's not about how many times you study the material or how many times you're exposed to the material it's about being exposed to the material doing your best to focus and attend to that material and then self- testing yourself on that material
when you self test material you have the amount of forgetting that occurs compared to if you're just exposed to the material