On Ebbinghaus, Neuroscience, and "How We Learn"

What we are learning about memory and how to use it

I have a confession.

I’m a nerd for Ebbinghaus.

His groundbreaking work on memory impacts much of what I do, from how I design training to the preaching I do on the need for a transfer strategy. What his study showed impacts training across the world to this day.

The Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve demonstrates how information we learn gradually slips away fr…