Could SuperMemo become an unhealthy addiction?
(smmanic, Thursday, July 07, 2005 12:58 AM) Question: It seems my entire life is centered on SuperMemo. In making any decision about my life–my choice of job, my choice of transportation means, my choice of social activities–almost invariably I begin with the question, “How will this affect my ability to do repetitions and to add new items?” Clearly I have an obsession with learning and with SuperMemo. My concern, and the subject of my post, is over whether or not this obsession is a healthy one. In the first six months of using SuperMemo, my focus was strictly on the goal of inputting my total present knowledge (at risk of being forgotten). From a certain perspective, particularly after completing four successful years of college, I am saddened to think I reached that once “monstrous” goal in the space of only six months. Now, after only a year and a half, my collection contains 15,000 memorized items, and my level of knowledge has increased 300%! (That means I feel like I have gone
