our ability to learn isolated facts is indeed limited and probably decreases with age. But if facts are not kept isolated nor learned in an isolated fashion, but hang together in a network of ideas, or “latticework of mental models” (Munger, 1994), it becomes easier to make sense of new information.
The brain works on connections of ideas. This is why memory trucks are about connecting things to something else. like a mind palace or mnemonic.
