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25 May 2024

If I am trying to memorize something, let’s say if I have an hour to memorize as many Spanish words as I can, if I just try to do half-an-hour and then later in the day I do half-an-hour, I won’t retain that information as long as if I do half-an-hour today and half-an-hour one week from now.

“If I am trying to memorize something, let’s say if I have an hour to memorize as many Spanish words as I can, if I just try to do half-an-hour and then later in the day I do half-an-hour, I won’t retain that information as long as if I do half-an-hour today and half-an-hour one week from now.”

Speaker: Charan Ranganath
Episode: #430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories
Publisher: Lex Fridman Podcast

What Charan said.

If I am trying to memorize something, let’s say if I have an hour to memorize as many Spanish words as I can, if I just try to do half-an-hour and then later in the day I do half-an-hour, I won’t retain that information as long as if I do half-an-hour today and half-an-hour one week from now.