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If you're expecting it to be a silver bullet, then you're in for a bad time.

You still have to do the work.

It's a lever or a pulley, nothing more.



> You still have to do the work

Spaced repetition is doing the work.


The "work" is actively trying to recall the information on the card. Spaced repetition is just a more efficient way of doing this than (for example) cycling through every single card, every single day.


...and more efficient than reading long-form text or course material




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