[books] Why We Forget Most of the Books We Read … and what we watch and listen to.
‘The lesson from his binge-watching study is that if you want to remember the things you watch and read, space them out. I used to get irritated in school when an English-class syllabus would have us read only three chapters a week, but there was a good reason for that. Memories get reinforced the more you recall them, [Jared] Horvath says. If you read a book all in one stretch-on an airplane, say-you’re just holding the story in your working memory that whole time. “You’re never actually reaccessing it,” he says.’
Why We Forget What We Watch, Read and Listen To
This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 28th, 2018 at 1:32 pm and is filed under Books, Life, Movies, TV.
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