If you know how to visualize and build memory palaces, it makes it much easier to understand new concepts, practice them, and therefore to retain them for the long term.
Once you gain this ability, it can transform your relationship with learning.
Before, I felt akrasia. I did my work—it was just a grind. Learning shouldn’t feel that way.
Now, I feel voracious. I learn, and the knowledge sticks. My process improves at the same time. My time suddenly has become precious to myself. The books aren’t full of tedium that can never be remembered. They’re full of fully learnable useful knowledge that compounds on itself, and for which my only bottleneck is the time and energy and Butt Strength to spend learning them.
Studying for retention is a virtuous cycle
If you know how to visualize and build memory palaces, it makes it much easier to understand new concepts, practice them, and therefore to retain them for the long term.
Once you gain this ability, it can transform your relationship with learning.
Before, I felt akrasia. I did my work—it was just a grind. Learning shouldn’t feel that way.
Now, I feel voracious. I learn, and the knowledge sticks. My process improves at the same time. My time suddenly has become precious to myself. The books aren’t full of tedium that can never be remembered. They’re full of fully learnable useful knowledge that compounds on itself, and for which my only bottleneck is the time and energy and Butt Strength to spend learning them.