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| − | Spaced repetition is great, because it allows you to remember the things you study for a long time. But also it comes with many [[Emotional difficulties of spaced repetition|emotional difficulties]]. One of those is that you feel like a perpetual student in a subject. Someone who takes a course in linear algebra many come to understand it well in a couple of months, passes the course, and then come to identify as "someone who knows linear algebra" or "someone who is good at linear algebra". They then move onto studying further subjects, still maintaining this identity. But someone who studies via spaced repetition may learn it in spaced intervals over time, so that after two years they are still "someone who is learning linear algebra"! Worse, they are constantly reminded of the parts of linear algebra that they have forgotten and must relearn. | + | Spaced repetition is great, because it allows you to remember the things you study for a long time. But also it comes with many [[Emotional difficulties of spaced repetition|emotional difficulties]]. One of those is that you feel like a perpetual student in a subject. Someone who takes a course in linear algebra many come to understand it well in a couple of months, passes the course, and then come to identify as "someone who knows linear algebra" or "someone who is good at linear algebra". They then move onto studying further subjects, still maintaining this identity. But someone who studies via spaced repetition may learn it in spaced intervals over time, so that after two years they are still "someone who is learning linear algebra"! Worse, they are [[Spaced repetition constantly reminds one of inadequacies|constantly reminded]] of the parts of linear algebra that they have forgotten and must relearn. |
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Revision as of 18:57, 19 March 2021
Spaced repetition is great, because it allows you to remember the things you study for a long time. But also it comes with many emotional difficulties. One of those is that you feel like a perpetual student in a subject. Someone who takes a course in linear algebra many come to understand it well in a couple of months, passes the course, and then come to identify as "someone who knows linear algebra" or "someone who is good at linear algebra". They then move onto studying further subjects, still maintaining this identity. But someone who studies via spaced repetition may learn it in spaced intervals over time, so that after two years they are still "someone who is learning linear algebra"! Worse, they are constantly reminded of the parts of linear algebra that they have forgotten and must relearn.
