Remember to Repeat

Last time, we talked about practice–repeat-to-remember. Your fantastic brain loves remembering stuff. The more you repeat something, the better you’ll become at it. Today, let’s switch it around. Let’s remember to repeat.

Can you ride a bike? Do you remember how often you fell off or crashed when first learning?

Your brain was taking care of lots of things:

Balance, steering, pedalling, watching where you’re going, using the brakes

That’s a lot of stuff right there.

Maybe you don’t ride a bike. You might be reading this from your wheelchair. Or, you live where you can’t get hold of a bike.

That’s okay because how you learn something new is pretty much the same as riding a bike.

Each day you ride the bike, your brain gets better at controlling you and your bike.

It’s true of anything else you’re trying to learn: reading, writing, math, tidying your room, operating your wheelchair.

The key to all of it is practice–repeat to remember. The second part of repeat to remember is–remember to repeat.

By remembering to repeat, you’re practising. If you sold your bike the first time you fell off, you’d have never learned to ride it.

So, as well as repeating something to remember it, it’s also essential to:

Remember to Repeat