Why We Only Learn When We Repeat 

Welp, time to rewatch all the school of life vidoes...

It's not so much learning through repitition, because even with repitition you still tend to forget. You mostly learn through reflection and application, when you reflect and understand the purpose of what you are learning and the value thereof, that's when knowledge is stored and well, applying it.

That is so true though. Repetition helps us realize the mistakes and gain wisdom. Its simple trial and error. That's how you learn So, fail over and over again :)

this community is the best so far....polite intelligent discussions,respect and ability from every one to change beliefs

This amazes me. So anyone can be an Einstein if we just understand certain things and repeat it everyday single day. Damn, if I only have the motivation

We are what we repeatedly do

I think the ancient Greeks said: 'Repetition is the key to learning.' A method much discredited nowadays ...

The animation on this is great.

As a religious person (assuming the people behind The School of Life are not), I really appreciate their fairness toward religion. We can all learn something from each other, even if we sometimes don't agree about central concepts.

As a practitioner of Buddhist tantra I can recognize the excel of repetition as you recite and repeat hundreds of times a mantra or a sadhana it becomes more and more clear the understanding of your practice.

I learnt coding using the repetition technique.

This is what I learned as a child: "repetition confirms and strengthens, then faith comes naturally. " Except faith is unjustified when believing without evidence, reason, and facts

To show my understanding of the proposed idea, I watched the video 10 times.

I like to watch/listen to this channel everyday to remind me of such values and knowledge, even if in small bite sizes :-)

guys we are so lucky that we all come to this channel twice a week!

There's also a neurological explanation for this, pertaining to the myelin sheath. There seems no substitute for repetition, and a true anti-ageing practice (as the myelin dies off in the brain, and is especially attacked by illnesses such as Parkinson's and Dementia) would be to learn something new and complex in the 2nd half of your life; the violin, perhaps. Or Japanese, or carpentry.

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Every single school of life video start like One of the most..

the reason why we study so much with comparatively little repetition in school is because we have accumulated so much knowledge. Everyone has their own path to take in the field of their choosing. Schools have many functions, but one of their main functions in higher school education is to prepare you for university and what you will learn there. As you can expect everyone to study something different, you want your students to have at least heard the most important concepts of every field so they have an easier time in university. The matter of fact is that a mathematician has no need whatsoever for interpretation of poetry and a translator does not need to know how to solve integrals. Learning is beautiful; but just continuing to study without having a proper job at the end of it can cause lots of suffering, so people should better focus on getting good in only 1 area of expertise and focus practice of repetition on that 1 field.

I think this video might be my favorite across all amazing videos from this channel. As a language learner, I have been listening a lot of tips and lessons from polyglots, and the key of their success is, likely, repetition. Establishing habits around the things you wanna keep in mind, learning new things and revisiting previous concepts is the "secret" of lifelong (and maintained) learning. Not just for languages, but for anything, I guess.

"education is not something you can finish" Isaac Asimov

The day you stop learning is the day you start dying is a quote I found extremely important in capturing this concept

We will die We must understand ourselves We must love Others are sad rather than mean We will die We must understand ourselves We must love Others are sad rather than mean We will die We must understand ourselves We must love Others are sad rather than mean

Um what do you have against religion? I feel this video would be more effective if you focused on why repetition works as opposed to making it about religion vs us

It's not just having an idea in your head that's important, but the clarity of it.

We should make our own midnight prayers whether that is reading a book, writing a piece, or just contemplating on life love this idea! Midnight prayers are often said to have more rewards in religion. This is for a reason, our will and purpose should be strong enough to make us stay awake till midnight or wake up in the middle of the night, and it is the perfect time to reflect and have deep thoughts about life in the serenity of the night when everyone else is asleep. 3:30 thanks for sharing insightful videos the school of life!

As a teacher I experienced numerous times during 'teacher training' and 'professional development' the instructor handing out some papers, or talking about a book. Invariably if I read the hand out 2-3 times waiting for the class to begin, or if I read the book a second time - I understood more about what they were paid to teach us than they did. What's worse than sad, pathetic, is that it wasn't that difficult to read and re-read until understanding. (What's absolutely ridiculous is how much money I made from books and articles I've read. There is a downside. The money is good, but you don't have a feeling of accomplishment because in the end it wasn't at all difficult. You have to challenge yourself in other ways.) The first day of teacher training, I sat through a three hour lecture and took notes while someone with a PhD in education lectured. Their first words? "These are the most important theorists of education, while I haven't read their books I've read about them."

I have been waiting for someone else to verbalize this exact point for a very long time. Thank you! Truly, thank you for making this film.

I need to rewatch all the videos of The School of Life :)

*That others are sad rather than mean.* The biggest truth we often forget to repeat.

Man, you killed it with this one. Great job. Summarized all there is to School of Life. And the best is yet to come. Thank you for every effort you have put in the SoL endeavour. You are making more than the difference.

i will never repeat enough how useful this channel is, thank you!

The school of life if you're reading this I would just like you to know thank you. You answer the most meaningful question I always wondered but never got taught in school. I can tell you put a lot of hard work and passion in your video so that everyone understands. Thank you

I recommend everyone to read : "The 9 behaviors of Great problem Solvers". It explains why we find some fields like math and physics hard.

I repeated this video 42 times. It helped.

I had a teacher in Shakespeare class back in college who memorized line by line, all exclamation marks and periods and semicolons, all phrases in the Shakespearean literature. I was impressed by her but now I know why.

Throughout my whole life I was constantly bombarded with vague things like application, reflection, deep understanding etc. All these hacks and new methods in social media and self-help videos. After many years, I have come to the conclusion that I should seriously consider the basics. Now I rely on repetition. It's not just fore new things. Many times I will resolve the same math exercise three times, instead of solving three different exercises. And I see so many benefits.

This is brilliant. As a Christian, I find I have to rehearse what I believe and how I should behave everyday. I hadn't realised before that this is because my mind is more like a sieve than a bucket. Thanks.

repetition is the mother of skill!

I do not dismiss the importance of religion and find it interesting that so much of what is valued here is part of religion- not only the need for repetition, but for love and compassion.

The rarest of human qualities is consistency 97 percent give up in 1 year That's why 97 percent of people don't master anything and have to work a regular job for 50 years

When he said "Most of us are done with religion" I super confused and really happy. Most people I know who practice a religion continue to do so every single day. I left my parent's religion a few years ago, and I've never looked back. Any other non-theists in the house?

Outstanding!!!! Keeping people going to church every week is exactly why dangerous and backwards ideologies continue to permeate. We're finally reaching an age where we break free from these mindsets, and understand that love and forgiveness and spirituality is not dependent on believing in an imaginary man in the sky. We have to force ourselves to refresh our minds constantly with the knowledge that matters most, or we'll start acclimating to crazy beliefs from whatever else we're continuing to fill our heads with.

Repetition, or brainwashing. There is more to it than repetition. Also, you never stop learning as you learn as you work. Finally, repeating the same thing will never get you anywhere.

So this is why you make videos that revist topics you've already covered.

This brought to mind how much of Lord of the Rings I've forgotten. Maybe the new standard of "favorite novel" is the one you actually got through even once. P.S. I'm not sure people are sad rather than mean. Most mean people are very happy with themselves.

"Repetita iuvant" in Latin means loosely "repeated things help." We imperfect humans definitely need to form habits of the mind in order to learn and to retain knowledge. Virtues are good habits as well. I think the computer age has people thinking that our minds are like a micro chip in which you download information and it stays there. Obviously, this is not the case.

I'm always encouraged and impressed by The School of Life's embracing of a brave new more secular future while very much wanting to acknowledge and retain the important lessons that religion has furnished humanity with. We needn't "throw out the baby with the bathwater"

Repetition is the surest way to keeping alive newly generated ideas and knowledge acquired!

This video has reminded me of the word with which Allah (God in arabic) adresses us, humans in the Holy Quran with the word "insaan" - the ones who forget.

This video is now my daily prayers.

Im finally figuring this out, I used to dance like a boss, but now not so much, up keep is natures law. Now I listen to the same things over and over.

This is what i needed. I have a mind wanting desperatly to be ok. Good thoughts is Happines As time passes by.

Ancient greeks had a saying: "Επανάληψις,μήτηρ πάσης μαθήσεως" "Repetition, is the mother of all learning"

this is why adults need to watch children's shows. to remember the important, basic, lessons.

Tell that to my school system (Mexico) which has been repeating the same sh... stuff I learnt in middle school even now in college... The worst part is that my classmates think it's "difficult" and "challenging"...

Hindsight is a gift.

Thank you fo your efforts !! Thank you for sharing and spreading your knowledge with the entire world.

Success is the repetition of work!

"PRACTICE Does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect "(Vince Lombardi) ========================================================================

I'll have to watch this a few times to remember it.

i think its relative --- Understanding weighs more than repetition ( from my perspective )

Excellence is a habit. Practice is so important for business and health goals too!

this essentially says develop better availability heuristics so you can frequently access more enriching/valuable cognitive events in your memory

Apart from repetition religion teaches in as many different ways as possible; songs, routines, images, ideas, solo and drupal activities etc

This is my favorite idea from Alain De Bottom

we can't learn what we don't use. What we use is what we repeat; therefore, we learn through repetition if and only if it is motivated by the idea of practicality.

The difference is that religions only expect you to learn one thing (i.e. one book). When you're open to everything available in the modern world you do not need to revisit everything once you've grasped most of it because there is an nearly infinite amount of more in depth knowledge on the same subject (which is a kind of repetition but in addition also has new things as well).

Aristotle said the same thing: virtue through habituation. You can't just learn about bravery and instantly become brave. You have to repeatedly carry out the act of bravery (or at least try to be just a little foolhardy once in a while). Then, you can have the knowledge of when one should be brave. Also, just learning something isn't enough. You have to utilize that knowledge in the real world. Knowing that in an emergency someone should call 911 is good only if some actually calls.

My problem is that the things I usually keep repeating to myself is what I forget and unfortunately I couldn't find any video about it so I'm still clueless why my brain works like this

Thanks school of life, now ill watch this video again to learn even more :)

I think that the thing that should be repeated are the ideas themselves, and by WRITING or speaking about them (i.e. actively rehearsing) rather than rereading them, which is a passive rehearsal, and only encourages familiarisation with some stimulus (be it book or lecture or novel). Also, religions do it for similar passive reasons. To make the person passively thinking (not thinking for themselves) and to indoctrinate them.

Rote memorization is inferior to holistic learning. When you explore the background of an idea, its relation to other ideas, give it practical value, imagine/symbolize the concepts visually or in relation to other senses and when you also change your perspective so that you make the subject more interesting to you (for an example, seeing history as an epic story instead of a collection of facts), the information will stick with you a lot better. The brain is not a computer, it's an interconnected network of meanings.

I swear I have to watch every video you do at least 3 times: once to carry on an internal monologue about what's being said, once to enjoy your lovely voice, and once to actually listen to what you're saying. X)

I wish I had been told this when I was 14 and not at 71 as I am now!!

I don't exactly agree with you. Constant repetition can keep you in one place and prevent from exploring new ideas. It can make a person narrow-minded.

What was the first part again

You couldn't have posted this at a more perfect time.

This is by far the best learning tips video. Forget all those tips about how to learn bla bla the ONLY tip you need to know is this: REPEAT!

I think this video has just changed my life

Indeed, very insightful!

Amazing video for secularists. We need to keep coming back to philosophy to make it work.

Wonderful video with interesting animation.Great timing with amazing lessons.

As hereditary, psychological viruses, religions have undergone a natural selection in favour of effective mechanisms for their sustenance and proliferation. Anyhow, glad to see aware of the retrieval effect too, though another core failure of (particularly higher) education is the notion that things must be memorised. We now have the ability to externalise memory. As long as we have a good index, memorising of the most useful (most frequently used) information will naturally follow from use of such a resource.

So very very true...Well done.

One of the best The School of Life Clips.

Im rewatching this video, i think after around 9 months

Very good in my ear's

This is incomplete. The goal is memorization and understanding. Not repitition for repetitions sake. The key to proper retention is an exponential increase in time between repetition. Review your flashcards every e^x minutes. X being a whole number.

You need to visit the neuralogical basis of learning to drive this idea home. Repetition is about creating new and diverse neural connections relating to the same and similar information. The amount of repetition required depends on the complexity of the information, the level of abstraction the information represents, and the adequate interconnectivity between various related lower level abstractions. You can tell someone that the laser and atomic bomb are quantum mechanical devices, and most people will have no problem remembering that idea after hearing or reading it only one time. At the lowest level, this is simply a string of related nouns and verbs, which most modern people are familiar with. It is a simple matter to categorize the ideas of a laser and an atomic bomb along with the possibly new term of quantum mechanics, and say, "Ok, I got it. These concepts are related.", and continue on. It is a simple matter of relating the words in a single context. But to teach the same person the scientific and mathematical details of how these devices work is an entirely different matter. The comprehension of this requires a vastly more complex heirarchy of abstraction than remembering the context of a string of words. That abstract heirarchy is built upon neural connections. The key to learning by repetition is varying the manner and context in which the information is dispensed. The more you acquire the same information through different neural pathways, the wider the spread of contextual interconnectedness throughout the brain. Once the information has been 'wired' through so many various pathways it is easier to remember because it has a greater chance of receiving a hit when any part of the brain is stimulated. Its good to hear the information along with seeing the information displayed in various ways, and then explained again in different contexts, and sometimes even in a song. For some reason melodies and lyrics are easier to remember than unenhanced information. Science and engineering students often resort to memnonics and lymerics to remember theorems or short strings of a complex idea. It is accessing a different pathway and abstracting the information in a different way. When learning mathematics and science I try to receive the same information through many different sources, sometimes listening to 6 different lecturers and reading several different textbooks just to create some variation and stimulate different pathways of thought. The information never truly makes sense until I can relate it to something real, some other idea that I have a strong familiarity with. Relating new information and incorporating it into your everyday life is helpful to provide meaningful repetition. Possibly the best way to learn anything is to teach it to someone else. It has often been said that the true test of whether you properly understand a complex subject is if you can teach it to a child. This is great because it forces you to break the subject down into simple and meaningful absractions, and forces you to reorganize the concepts in a logical, progressive heirarchy of abstraction.

Very helpful

please make some videos on Orientalism and postcolonial studies ... it will be very relevant to a lot of political turmoil going on in the present day

Awesome thought! The same could be implemented to Learn New Skills, training etc. Very Informative

It should be, "Why we learn only when we repeat." It is the repeating that is the exclusive focus. You do more than just learn when you repeat. You focus, study, absorb etc.

0:47 - 1:14 There is a prayer within Christianity, by Ephrem the Syrian , for each hour, in 24 parts, dedicated to Holy Mary.

Dr Huberman at Stanford University says to study in 90 minute windows then rest and reflect to actually absorb what you just studied

LEARNING used to be mostly by sharing, person to person. Thus people would repeat some of their learning, by repeated sharing. DEMOCRAT Party Messaging, needed more repetition, and less DIGRESSING to IMPACT more. ============================================================================

But India's education system makes you repeat the same thing a million times, and you end up feeling sleepy af. I think India's and USA's education systems are polar opposites and a good education system would be somewhere in the middle of the two

Another idea that will change my life. Now I understand better why I always revisit some contents in books, films, songs and even in RU-vid channels: so that I do not unlearn valuable things by trusting solely my memory. That said, it is possible as well, on the other hand, to let go unwanted behaviors, ideas, habits and beliefs that harm or no longer speak to us by not repeating them. It obviously sounds easier then it is, but it's the same movement consciously applied in the opposite direction. There are extra words in the subtitles in 2:49.

its not for mortals to say. spontaneous moral personal and social authority.