movever

  Many people have had this experience. You feel like you studied seriously: you attended the class, watched the videos, took plenty of notes. Yet when you come back to the material weeks later, large parts feel blurry—or completely gone. This feeling is common, and it’s not a personal failure. More often than not, the problem isn’t a lack of effort. It’s that there’s a gap between *learning* something and actually *remembering* it—and that gap is easy to overlook. We tend to invest heavily in the “learning” phase, then slowly give up on review. Notes pile up. Pages get thicker. But the number of times we truly revisit everything drops. Over time, learning turns into a one-time consumption instead of something that accumulates. If you think about it, most things we “can’t remember” aren’t especially difficult. What really discourages us is how they show up: entire chapters, long paragraphs, dense pages of information. When material looks like this, the cost of reviewing feels high....