Jim Kwik explains that memory sticks when you pair information with emotion. Your emotional state while learning shapes how you encode and retrieve that knowledge, so deliberately invoke the state you want while studying.
Information combined with emotion becomes a long-term memory. And that's the state. All learning is state-dependent. Life is emotions, right? Even time. You know, we don't even know how to define time most of the times, but how many people have ever felt something where you felt like time went by really slow? How many people have ever felt something, a different kind of emotion, where time just stood still? Because time is a feeling, right? It's an emotion. And so you want to get that emotion in your body because all information, all learning, state dependent.
The Library of Minds: Brain Coach: How to Stay Sharp When AI Does the Thinking | Jim Kwik
