![]() ![]() The “ forgetting curve,” as it’s called, is steepest during the first 24 hours after you learn something. “Memory generally has a very intrinsic limitation,” says Faria Sana, an assistant professor of psychology at Athabasca University, in Canada. It might leave a film in the tub, but the rest is gone. But for many, the experience of consuming culture is like filling up a bathtub, soaking in it, and then watching the water run down the drain. ![]() Surely some people can read a book or watch a movie once and retain the plot perfectly. “Right now, two days later, I probably could not give you the timeline of the American revolution.” “While I read that book, I knew not everything there was to know about Ben Franklin, but much of it, and I knew the general timeline of the American revolution,” she says. What I don’t remember-and it’s terrible-is everything else.”įor example, Paul told me she recently finished reading Walter Isaacson’s biography of Benjamin Franklin. “I remember the edition I remember the cover I usually remember where I bought it, or who gave it to me. I remember the physical object,” says Paul, the editor of The New York Times Book Review, who reads, it is fair to say, a lot of books. ![]() “I almost always remember where I was and I remember the book itself. Pamela Paul’s memories of reading are less about words and more about the experience. ![]()
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