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Is it weird to not remember your childhood?
In most cases, not being able to remember your childhood very clearly is completely normal. It’s just the way human brains work. On the whole, childhood amnesia isn’t anything to worry about, and it’s possible to coax back some of those memories by using sights and smells to trigger them.
Why can’t I retain anything?
The reason why most people can’t retain information is that they simply haven’t trained themselves to do it. We can take it a step further: People who can’t learn quickly and recall information on demand not only fail to use memory techniques. Use proper study and memory improvement techniques instead.
How do you study when you can’t remember something?
When you struggle to remember something that you learned a few days ago, you’re forced to work hard and engage with the material more. So you might study something on Monday, do some follow up on Tuesday, take a quiz on Thursday and then another quiz the following week. The gaps between study should initially be small and gradually increase.
Do you remember what you were taught in school?
Everyone will have different memories, and they may have very little to do with what you were taught in class. You might not remember anything at all. It’s extraordinary how quickly we manage to forget what we crammed during all those long hours of study. Algebra. Long division. Verbs, adverbs and relative clauses. The causes of World War I.
Is there a program that makes you never forget something you learned?
According to Wired Magazine such a program exists. The program was developed in response to decades of research into memory and optimal learning. What researchers found was that there is an ideal moment to review material that you have learned so that you don’t forget it.
Why do I forget what I read after reading something?
Most likely you are not repeating the information often enough to retain it in your long term memory. Reading something is only the first step in the process of retaining information. Spaced Repetition Learning means you review and recall the information immediately before your brain forgets.