Rule #5 Repeat to remember. • The brain has many types of memory systems. One type follows four stages of processing: encoding, storing, retrieving, and forgetting. • Information coming into your brain is immediately split into fragments that are sent to different regions of the cortex for storage. • Most of the events that predict whether something learned also will be remembered occur in the first few seconds of learning.The more elaborately we encode a memory during its initial moments, the stronger it will be. • You can improve your chances of remembering something if you reproduce the environment in which you first put it into your brain.

— Brain Rules by John Medina