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My high school teacher swore by cassette tapes for studying, I thought she was nuts
Back in 2002, my history teacher in Columbus told us to record our notes onto cassette tapes and listen to them on repeat. I laughed it off because I was all about writing things down and highlighting, seemed way more efficient. Took me 4 years of cramming in college to realize my brain totally tunes into audio repetition. Last month I caught myself making voice memos of my IT training modules and walking around the office listening to them. Funny how that teacher was onto something, I just couldn't see it at 16. Has anyone else found that old school advice actually works better than the fancy stuff we use now?
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ben2061mo ago
Three voice memos made me lose all my focus during a 2023 server migration because I kept rewinding past the actual instructions while trying to get the timing right on a tricky firewall change. Writing forces you to process the info once through your hands and eyes, which builds a stronger memory chain than just hearing it on a loop. Cassette tapes work fine if you have zero distractions, but most of us are not living in a quiet study room from 1985.
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