How to Save Hundreds of Study Hours
Say you spend an hour learning something - reading, listening to a lecture or participating in an activity. At the end of the learning experience, you know 100 percent of what you know, however well you know it.
In 24 hours, if you have done nothing with the information you learned, didn't think about it again, read it again, etc., you will have lost 50-80 percent of what you learned. By Day 7, you remember even less and by Day 30, you retain about 2-3 percent of the original information!
To retain the most of what you learn: Within 24 hours of getting the information, spend 10 minutes reviewing and you will raise your retention to 100 percent again. A week later (Day 7), it takes only 5 minutes to "reactivate" the same material and again raise the curve. By Day 30, your brain will only need 2-4 minutes to give you the feedback.
