In my experience learning something complicated isn’t hard and I don’t forget it easily if I am interested in the topic and have a use for it. I venture to guess most students don’t particularly enjoy or have a use for all the complicated mathematics they learn. Thus, they forget it quickly because it never stimulated the mind.
Interest allows us to commit more memory and having a use helps us understand the topic as a tool that can be built upon and potentially used in other areas.
I should have better articulated my claim, complicated doesn’t imply difficult. Sometimes there is a unique challenge to a concept, even if you have all the right tools. To answer your question, time, interest, dedication, learning material.
In my experience learning something complicated isn’t hard and I don’t forget it easily if I am interested in the topic and have a use for it. I venture to guess most students don’t particularly enjoy or have a use for all the complicated mathematics they learn. Thus, they forget it quickly because it never stimulated the mind.
Interest allows us to commit more memory and having a use helps us understand the topic as a tool that can be built upon and potentially used in other areas.
If learning complicated things isn’t hard, then what’s the bottleneck on learning a new field?
I should have better articulated my claim, complicated doesn’t imply difficult. Sometimes there is a unique challenge to a concept, even if you have all the right tools. To answer your question, time, interest, dedication, learning material.