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by lacedeconstruct 22 days ago
I feel like the actual core mechanic at improving is the actual act of "recall", it doesnt matter what you do if its a form of recall it is effective and very awkward in practice because you just sit there waiting for your brain to do a mysterious thing
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"Active recall" specifically (aka the testing effect [0]), as opposed to passive recall like rereading.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testing_effect