Surprise Plus Memory Equals Learning

Learning is composed of two elements: surprise and memory. If you go about life and nothing is surprising then you wouldn’t have anything new to learn. Similarly, if you don’t retain the lessons from being surprised then you haven’t learned it.

See also:

• From the The Clock of the Long Now
• There’s always something more to learn. Experience is an illusion of system completeness
• Lecture - Learning to Learn

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