Difference between revisions of "Emotional difficulties of spaced repetition"
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* [[Maintaining habits is hard, and spaced repetition is a habit]] | * [[Maintaining habits is hard, and spaced repetition is a habit]] | ||
* [[Spaced repetition systems remind you when you are beginning to forget something]] | * [[Spaced repetition systems remind you when you are beginning to forget something]] | ||
| − | * [[There are not many established best practices for how to do spaced repetition well]] | + | * [[There are not many established best practices for how to do spaced repetition well]] (even things like the [[20 rules]] have counter-examples) |
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
Revision as of 21:52, 23 March 2021
A few people (Piotr Wozniak? Andy Matuschak? Michael Nielsen?) have talked about things like "why isn't spaced repetition more popular/mainstream?" Without digging into the literature, here's my own brainstorm of what makes spaced repetition emotionally hard for me:
- Feeling like a perpetual student in a subject due to spaced repetition
- Competence vs learning distinction means spaced repetition feels like effort without progress
- Spaced repetition constantly reminds one of inadequacies
- Iteration cadence for spaced repetition experiments -- slow feedback loop means you're often not sure if you're doing the right thing until months later
- Maintaining habits is hard, and spaced repetition is a habit
- Spaced repetition systems remind you when you are beginning to forget something
- There are not many established best practices for how to do spaced repetition well (even things like the 20 rules have counter-examples)
