Knowledge is Better Gained and Retained by Taking Things Slow
✧ First Planted: June 2025 ✧ Last Tended: June 2025 ✧ Status: Seedling ✧
Tags: learning
Thought
Giving time to the practice of gaining knowledge is not what makes it so successful. It's the other way around. In order to properly gain and retain knowledge, one must associate it with things they already know, enter in dialogue with the knowledge from the lens of everything they have learned before.
Indeed, piecing together past knowledge to create new knowledge is essentially the work of reformulating, or writing an original thought with the help of the new knowledge, and this in turn helps you retain it better because it finds itself nested in a web of understandings.
This process is what takes time.