{"id":103820,"date":"2023-05-27T20:49:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T00:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=103820"},"modified":"2023-05-31T10:03:28","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T14:03:28","slug":"how-to-remember-what-you-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-remember-what-you-learn\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Remember What You Learn: Tips for Storage &#038; Recall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Do you have trouble recalling what you&#8217;ve learned? Do you rely on last-minute cramming and hope for the best?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Often, the first step in any learning process is to absorb and memorize new information, whether it\u2019s a list of historical facts, scientific concepts, or steps to perform a task. The trick is to do it in a way that lets you retain what you\u2019ve learned and access it when needed in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read on for advice on how to remember what you learn and stop squandering your study and practice time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-remembering-what-you-learn\">Remembering What You Learn<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to know how to remember what you learn, it helps to understand how memory works, what practices help strengthen memorization, and what mental techniques make it easier to recall what you\u2019ve memorized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/app\/book\/learning-how-to-learn\/1-page-summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Learning How to Learn<\/em><\/a>, Barbara Oakley and Terrence Sejnowski write that, before knowledge can enter your long-term memory, <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/learn-like-a-pro#why-memory-is-essential-for-learning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">it first needs to go through your <em>working memory<\/em><\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/improve-working-memory-moonwalking-with-einstein\/\">Working memory<\/a> temporarily holds facts, thinks through information, and solves problems. It\u2019s a crucial part of the learning process, but it has limits\u2014working memory can only hold three or four thoughts at a time, and if you try to think about more than that, you\u2019ll likely forget some of those ideas. However, the neural connections that your working memory creates eventually enter your long-term memory once those connections have been sufficiently strengthened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, how do you pass information from your short-term into your long-term memory? In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/app\/book\/the-only-study-guide-youll-ever-need\/1-page-summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>The Only Study Guide You&#8217;ll Ever Need<\/em><\/a>, Jade Bowler states that <strong>your brain remembers information best by engaging with it<em> repeatedly<\/em> over time.<\/strong> Each time you review information, you\u2019ll be able to remember it longer, eventually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/app\/book\/the-only-study-guide-youll-ever-need\/1-page-summary#understand-how-your-brain-learns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ingraining it into your long-term memory<\/a>. You can also enhance this by<strong> <em>connecting<\/em> information to concepts you already know<\/strong>.<strong> <\/strong>For example, to remember the purpose of white blood cells\u2014to fight disease\u2014you might associate that information with a concept you\u2019re already familiar with, like the mythological \u201cwhite knight\u201d who comes to someone\u2019s aid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oakley and Sejnowski explain how this works on the neurological level, in which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/app\/book\/learning-how-to-learn\/1-page-summary#make-up-metaphors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">memories are based on neural connections<\/a>. Connecting a new neural pattern in your brain (such as facts about white blood cells) to an existing one (the myth of the white knight) makes the new data easier to retrieve. One example of how to connect neural patterns is to <strong>create mental pictures to represent the concept you\u2019re learning, <em>especially<\/em> if the concept isn\u2019t visual.<\/strong> Pictures are easier to commit to memory than abstractions like words and numbers. So, if you can link a fact to a mental image, you not only create more neural connections, but you connect them to something (namely the picture) that\u2019s easy to retrieve from memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many people try to burn information into their memories by rereading, but the authors of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/app\/book\/make-it-stick\/1-page-summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Make It Stick<\/em><\/a> say this approach only commits the information to your short-term memory, making it a waste of time in the long run. Instead, <strong>the most effective way to improve retention of new information is through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/active-recall-studying\/\">retrieval practice<\/a>, which is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/app\/book\/make-it-stick\/1-page-summary#improve-retention-through-retrieval-practice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">any exercise that requires you to recall what you\u2019ve learned<\/a><\/strong>. You can practice retrieval with classroom quizzes, flashcards, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/memory-retrieval\/\">self-testing<\/a>, and reflection when you assess how you approached a particular problem and how you can improve next time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Example: Jack and Sara Fill Their Heads<\/strong><br><br>Both music and science require memorizing information so well that you can recall it on command. For Jack, this means learning chord shapes and string-picking patterns, which he does through endless practice and repetition while associating the tactile feel of his playing with the different sounds that he produces.<br><br>In physics class, Sara has to memorize many physical laws and how they\u2019re represented in mathematics. To do this, she associates each mathematical formula with a mental image of the physical reaction that each law represents. For example, to remember that an object\u2019s <em>momentum <\/em>is equal to its <em>mass <\/em>multiplied by its <em>velocity <\/em>(<a href=\"https:\/\/study.com\/skill\/learn\/how-to-calculate-the-momentum-of-an-object-explanation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>p=mv<\/em><\/a>), she imagines a giant boulder (the mass) rolling quickly downhill (its velocity) as Indiana Jones tries to outrun it.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have trouble recalling what you&#8217;ve learned? Do you rely on last-minute cramming and hope for the best? Often, the first step in any learning process is to absorb and memorize new information, whether it\u2019s a list of historical facts, scientific concepts, or steps to perform a task. The trick is to do it in a way that lets you retain what you\u2019ve learned and access it when needed in the future. Read on for advice on how to remember what you learn and stop squandering your study and practice time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":13071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,160,43],"tags":[1040],"class_list":["post-103820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-science","category-self-improvement","tag-the-master-guides-learn-anything","","tg-column-two"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How to Remember What You Learn: Tips for Storage &amp; Recall - Shortform Books<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Learning requires retaining information and recalling it when needed. 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