You Study for hours but the next day it is like everything is gone. This is really frustrating is it not?. This is not a failure. This is actually how the brain is designed to work.
Imagine your brain is like a phone that has limited capacity. It needs to process huge amounts of data every day. If you don’t open or use a file again, your brain will think it’s not important and will put it aside without even telling you. Therefore it is essential to review.
let’s say you just copy paste information without processing it, it would be like saving a file that has no name or folder properly. The next time when you check it even if it’s there, you won’t be able to locate it.
Yet another reason? Your mind doesn’t get tired of learning as it gets fresh facts every day. Sometimes new subjects overlap with old ones, just like apps running in the background, making it almost impossible to retrieve the data.
So if you forget things after you study it does not mean you did not learn them it means the brain needs to go over the information make connections and remember it to keep it alive. The brain needs revision, connection and recall to keep the information alive. This is especially true, for the things you study.
If forgetting is natural, are we studying the wrong way or just not studying in the way our brain actually remembers?
MBH/AB