It occurred to me today that memorizing things is like rain. The water(facts) must come down one way other another. Holing up in the library cramming information in is like holding buckets and catching the rain. The burden of holding the memories is physical. After the exam almost all the water is dumped out to relieve the burden and make room for the next exam.
Using an SRS is like a tree. The tree will let the rain fall and over time absorb it. The rain lets the tree grow and grow, increasing its strength instead of its burden.
SRS memories feel different. It is strange at first walking into an exam without the heavy burden of grasping recently-studied material. It just works though. The exam gets done and the memories are absorbed instead of wash away.
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Great blog! I’m learning japanese and found this site while looking for ways of use the srs method on other sciences (chemistry at first).
This post is zen.