The Washington Post
Jan 17, 2023 - 7 min
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Can you reverse the Forgetting Curve? The older you get, the harder it seems to retain information, which is particularly frustrating when you go to the supermarket or attend a conference and forget everything you didn't write down. This is where the Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve comes in. Author Scott Mautz explains what happened when he tried this 100-year-old study aid and how you too can retain information with this simple method.