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Hermann Ebbinghaus memorized nonsense syllables and then timed how fast they slipped. The drop is steep at the start and then flattens. A fact you met once this morning is already leaking by evening. A fact you meet again, on purpose, sticks longer each time. Forgetting is not a moral failure. It is the default, and review is the repair.

Memory falls fast, then levels off. A second look is what makes it stay.

Forgetting · Simply Psychology, on Ebbinghaus · 1885 · Factapp