# We know more compared to what we understood

Date: 2021-05-17 08:47:37 +08:00Date modified: 2021-07-05 12:14:21 +08:00

While Information is only acquired when you try to make sense of it, we just know more compared to what we understood. It doesn't mean it's a bad thing as Understanding comes first from memory. The amount of things is too great that deserve our limited attention.

We can still make sense of the things we know since We are more associative than structured. Our associative thinking along with our intuition is enough to make sense of things, we can always know the details later. This is where we Prefer referencing over remembering. But for the little things, it helps to write down Fleeting notes what we've remember.

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- Types of notes
- Information is only acquired when you try to make sense of it
- Repetition is not understanding
- Fleeting notes makes up most of our thoughts
- Time spent on learning a skill should equally spend time for applying said skill