• @orbitz@lemmy.ca
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    374 months ago

    Eventually you realize you forget almost as much as you learn, it’s like a bilge pump in a sinking boat. Then you focus on what you want to remember and come to acceptance with that.

    • Prehensile_cloaca
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      244 months ago

      You have to keep going through rehearsal of that old information to keep it from fading. The hard part is stacking new layers on the old layers.

      • @vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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        14 months ago

        I know way too much about the bronze age and not in a haha Ea-Nasir way but in a I have the major trade routes of the era memorized sort of way. The only official education I have is a high school diploma that even then I probably shouldn’t have gotten since I failed math outright.