You see, in addition to all of the psychological effects we’ve learned so far, our brains are subject to quite a few more. The most important of these might be the spacing effect. It states that things become infinitely more memorable if we repeatedly encounter them. You should also meet its supportive cousin, the lag effect. It states that the spacing effect is compounded when encounters are spaced out for extended periods of time. What I’m trying to say is this: learning something once, no matter how well you do it, just isn’t enough.
