Words That Stick: The Science of Building a Vocabulary That Doesn't Leak

In 1885, German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus plotted the exact curve of human forgetting - and found that without deliberate intervention, you lose more than half of what you learn within an hour. Vocabulary learning fails most people not because they lack effort, but because they use strategies that fight this curve instead of working with it. These four lessons show you how to encode words so deeply that forgetting them becomes the harder task.