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Key Rule Thumb Lets Decide Learn Forget Lifetime

Text The key rule of thumb that lets us decide what to learn and what to forget:
If, over your lifetime, you will spend more than 5 minutes looking something up or will lose more than this many minutes as a result of not knowing something, then it’s worthwhile to memorize it with spaced repetition. is the line that divides trivia from useful data.

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