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Training half-life

Ben Schmidt
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Training half-life is how long it takes for half of what someone learned in training to leak back out, with no reinforcement.

It is shorter than anyone selling you a workshop wants to admit. The forgetting curve is real and it is steep. One-and-done training has a brutally short half-life; spaced, low-dose practice is the only thing that extends it. The slide deck is not the intervention. The reps after it are.


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