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Eventually you realize you forget almost as much as you learn, it’s like a bilge pump in a sinking boat. Then you focus on what you want to remember and come to acceptance with that.

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You have to keep going through rehearsal of that old information to keep it from fading. The hard part is stacking new layers on the old layers.

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I know way too much about the bronze age and not in a haha Ea-Nasir way but in a I have the major trade routes of the era memorized sort of way. The only official education I have is a high school diploma that even then I probably shouldn’t have gotten since I failed math outright.

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This right here. Being content with ignorance s fine with me at the end of the day.

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