If you’ve been in sales readiness or corporate learning for any significant time, you’re no doubt familiar with the “forgetting curve.” The forgetting curve emphasizes that without immediate and ...

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A dynamic and engaging teacher stands before a class and delivers a vibrant lesson her well-intentioned students are eager to learn. Even in this best-case scenario, approximately half of what that ...

Forgetting is an evolutionary advantage: if the brain retained every memory and held onto every bit of information it takes in, it would be impossible for individuals to act. We need for our brains to ...

What if forgetting isn’t a failure but an essential feature of your brain’s design? For decades, we’ve been taught to fear memory lapses misplacing keys, blanking on names, or struggling to recall a ...

Source: Dennis Irorere/Unsplash You finish a fascinating podcast, read an insightful article, or attend a powerful training session. You’re intrigued and nod along in agreement. It clicks. You’re ...

Research shows we tend to forget most of what we learn or experience within 24 hours of encountering it. In fact, almost 50% of the knowledge we take in vaporizes within the first 20 minutes of ...

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