Progressive note-taking III: The faster you forget, the faster you learn

Part 1: Progressive note-taking: A practical technique for making accessible notes. Control of attention. Second brain. Flow





Part 2: Progressive note-taking II: Examples and metaphors. Reason as a springboard for ideas





Part 3: Progressive Note-taking III: The Faster You Forget, the Faster You Learn






The burden of a perfect memory

In traditional education, the ability to repeat what you read from memory is considered pure proof that what you read has been learned successfully. This is a hammering learning model - the more accurately you reproduce without adding your own interpretation or creativity, the higher the score.





But in the real world, perfect repetition is far from the ultimate dream.





One New Your Times article tells the fascinating story of 60 or so people with hyperthymesis - the ability to remember and recall an extremely high amount of information about their own life. Ask any of them what they were doing on the afternoon of March 16, 1996, and in seconds they will be able to tell you everything in great detail.





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And what you need to do? It takes courage to leave the confidence that we know everything ourselves. It requires vulnerability to depend on others for our progress and success. It takes immersion, taking note of what we notice, the courage to bet on it before it becomes clear why we did it. It requires curiosity, a willingness to ask questions that have no answers yet, or any reasonable route to an answer. This requires wading through our assumptions about what learning should look like in order to transfer what we know into the hands of those in need right now .








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