Constant repetition and memorization of lists of words and numbers will ONLY help you remember those lists of words and numbers. I cannot stress enough that your brain is not a bladder of knowledge that can be stretched out in order to hold more information. Also, repetition will only help you remember so much. If you choose to read an entire textbook once a day for 30 days, you're going to know that text book rather well, but you still might not know it word for word, and this constant task will also prevent the memorization of other things. When it comes to repeating information in order to solidify it within the memory, we must be selective about which things we want to remember. As a matter of fact, Dr. Medina cites Hermann Ebbinghaus' which states that the average student forgets 90% of what they were taught in class within 30 days; and most of this forgetting happens just hours after the class (Medina 100). We need to distinguish the most important information from the rest and reteach it to ourselves on a regular basis if we want to retain the information for longer than a month.
Medina, John. (2008). Brain rules. Seattle, WA: Pear Press.
