I think most people who have an interest in scholarship should seriously try language learning. You learn a lot of meta skills that I haven’t picked up anywhere else. And to learn you actually have to use those meta skills and you get to see them having an effect on the way you are thinking.
When you say:
“they commit a bunch of words about it to their short term memory”
I’m not entirely confident, as I have only recently started studying memory. But that is more of a general public definition of STM. What you describe would actually be Long Term Memory. STM only describes things that are kept in ‘RAM’ for a minute or two. While LTM encodes anything longer, even if it is basically forgotten by the next day. I believe that is an essential foundation for spaced repetition, which is related to scholarship, otherwise I wouldn’t have tried to explain my thoughts.
Anyway, again a nice post! I’ll be thinking about it as I go through my day
Nice post!
I think most people who have an interest in scholarship should seriously try language learning. You learn a lot of meta skills that I haven’t picked up anywhere else. And to learn you actually have to use those meta skills and you get to see them having an effect on the way you are thinking.
When you say:
“they commit a bunch of words about it to their short term memory”
I’m not entirely confident, as I have only recently started studying memory. But that is more of a general public definition of STM. What you describe would actually be Long Term Memory. STM only describes things that are kept in ‘RAM’ for a minute or two. While LTM encodes anything longer, even if it is basically forgotten by the next day. I believe that is an essential foundation for spaced repetition, which is related to scholarship, otherwise I wouldn’t have tried to explain my thoughts.
Anyway, again a nice post! I’ll be thinking about it as I go through my day