Learn to forget information that is no longer useful
As someone who is learning programming, I usually feel overwhelmed by the vast number of resources available on the Internet and with this constant flow of overload information it can be difficult to know where to start learning, but we need to make fair decisions about what to learn according to our goals, as our processing capacity is limited and consequently, when the information overload occurs in the brain, it is likely that a reduction in the decision quality happens.
It's not possible to know everything but instead, if you want to learn whatever it is, you need to find what resources and information are worth learning to help you moving from A to B.
Hermann Ebbinghaus forgetting curve describes the decrease in ability of the brain to retain memory over time. The theory is that humans start losing the memory of learned knowledge over time, in a matter of days or weeks, unless the learned knowledge is consciously reviewed time and again. A related concept to the forgetting curve is strength of memory, which states that the time period up to which a person can recall any memory is based on the strength of the particular memory.
That is the way our brains forget information to make room for new memories. We need to learn how to forget the information that is no longer useful for us because this process will help us improve access to relevant information, without old memories interfering.
"We are what we remember" but "we also are what we chose to forget".
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As someone who is learning programming, I usually feel overwhelmed by the vast number of resources available on the Internet and with this constant flow of overload information it can be difficult to know where to start learning, but we need to make fair decisions about what to learn according to our goals, as our processing capacity is limited and consequently, when the information overload occurs in the brain, it is likely that a reduction in the decision quality happens.
It's not possible to know everything but instead, if you want to learn whatever it is, you need to find what resources and information are worth learning to help you moving from A to B.
That is the way our brains forget information to make room for new memories. We need to learn how to forget the information that is no longer useful for us because this process will help us improve access to relevant information, without old memories interfering.
"We are what we remember" but "we also are what we chose to forget".