Students who actually taught what they'd studied still did better on a test a week later. Just expecting to teach helped on the day and had worn off by the week. The doing is the point: to explain something you have to find the gaps, and finding them fills them. Evidence: decent
Small student samples, one physics lesson, and a week is as far as anyone followed it.
If nobody's around, say it out loud anyway. The gaps show up just the same.
Same theme: Learning it
Learning it
Coffee after, not before
Want a fact to stick? Have the coffee right after you learn it.
no timeEvidence: worth trying
Learning it
Hook the new thing to something you know
Learning a name, a fact, a process: ask what it reminds you of, and tie it there.
no timeEvidence: decent
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Learn it last thing before lights out
The thing you need to remember goes in the final fifteen minutes before sleep. Not the phone.
15 minEvidence: decent