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Learning is the foundation on which human development is built. But unfortunately, most people forget what they have learned extraordinarily quickly. Many stagnate and learn only what they have been forced to learn but you will find all those that excel learn throughout their life.

As I said before, we forget what we have learnt, we have no control over what stays in our long term memory and what we will forget. On top of that we cannot even quantify the amount we have forgotten because we don’t know how much we have forgotten or what we have forgotten.

This means we have to constantly relearn things we have already learnt before which takes up time and can be boring.

What if I told you that it is possible to not only make your learning several times more effective, but also remember whatever you’ve learnt for a lifetime, and, on top of this, make learning new things super fun.

You can do this using a software called supermemo.

Supermemo is a software that allows you to read several pieces of text incrementally and also create flashcards that you can review using something called spaced repetition.

Several studies show that Active Recall and Spaced Repetition strongly improve your retention of a certain topic. You may know what spaced repetition is, it’ s been explained by several large youtubers such as “Thomas Frank, Ali Abdaal, Med School Insiders”. It allows you to remember information for a lifetime by spacing your reviews of the topic and hence allow you to have enhanced recall for a longer amount of time. This graph shows how it works. Every recall the rate at which you forget reduces and hence allows you to remember these for a lifetime. Active recall is simply trying to remember the information without having it in front of you.

I won’t bore you with the details but if you’re interested in reading about these, I’ve put some links and videos in the description.


Supermemo’s creator Dr. Piotr Wozniak, was the first person to develop an algorithm to create the spacing effect, he has pioneering research in the field of memory that is extraordinarily effective. The software allows you to incrementally review hundreds of texts, audio files and videos while making extracts from them regarding what you want to be shown next. The software organises everything for you and shows you all the texts in a manner so that you have time to work through all of them and remember the content of all of them. It lets you break down each idea into its smaller and finer details while still retaining the big picture and do this for thousands of sources.

It makes learning really fun. Ironically, the software that makes learning easy and fun, is kinda hard to learn but conquering the learning curves lets you learn anything quickly and ensures that it will stay with you for a long time. I have also linked some resources you can use to learn how to use the software and how to best apply it to the fields you are best interested in learning.

I strongly urge you to check out the software and give it a try, if you use it well, it will change your life.