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Comment author: stoat 09 October 2010 08:32:48PM 2 points [-]

I also find that scary/frustrating. But don't you find you can relearn those forgotten chunks much more rapidly than the first time, if you need to?

Comment author: Vladimir_M 10 October 2010 06:48:52AM 3 points [-]

Oh, yes, definitely. But the amount of effort necessary to relearn them is much smaller if you remember something resembling a coherent outline than if your knowledge decays into incoherent fragments.