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Why Your Brain Deletes Your Memories

Why Your Brain Deletes Your Memories

Human memory is designed to fail. You lose about half of everything you learn within just a few days unless you actively refresh the information.

This phenomenon is known as the forgetting curve, which tracks how quickly knowledge vanishes from your brain over time. It sounds frustrating, but it is actually an efficiency feature that prevents your mind from being cluttered with useless data. To move facts into long-term storage, you must review them at specific intervals. By studying just before your brain is about to discard a memory, you can trick it into keeping the information indefinitely.

Source: Forgetting curve

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