###### 🔑 Learning is at least a three-step process 1. Understanding / Comprehension: Develop a mental model. Memorization is remembering facts, understanding is interpreting them contextually, seeing more of [[🔑 Everything is connected to everything else|the web which connects all things]]. 2. [[💡 Encoding]] and [[💡 Recoding]] 3. Retrieval. [[🦮 How to Study|Retrieval Practice]]. Updates and reconsolidates learning and enables you to apply it when you need it. [[Effortful retrieval practice makes learning pliable again, leading to reconsolidation]], and [[Reconsolidation helps update memories with new information and connects them to more recent learning]].