Scott Young

overlearning can extend the durability of the skill.

moving up a level to a more advanced skill enabled the earlier skill to be overlearned, thus preventing some forgetting.

mnemonics can act as a bridge for difficult-to-remember information, but it’s usually not the final step in creating memories that will endure forever.

found them useful for language learning and terminology, and, paired with SRS, they can form an effective bridge from feeling as though there’s no way you can possibly remember everything to remembering it so deeply that you can’t possibly forget.

spacing, proceduralization, overlearning, and mnemonics

principles-first way of thinking of problems is so much more effective

difficulty in retrieving the correct information—even when the difficulty is caused by the information not being there—can prime you to remember information better later.

Feynman didn’t master things by following along with other people’s results. Instead, it was by the process of mentally trying to re-create those results

most people learn abstract, general rules only after being exposed to many concrete examples. It’s not possible to simply present a general principle and expect that you can apply it to concrete situations.

when you lack knowledge about a subject, you also tend to lack the ability to assess your own abilities. It is true that the more you learn about a subject, the more questions arise.