Uploaded December 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago

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Learn a new word and then suddenly hear that word everywhere? Buy a new car and suddenly see it on the road everywhere?

Sponge learning is not all that different. Once you know a topic exists, you start to pick up more and more facts about it with relative ease.

Links

- Original article: alexrosen.com/blog/2011/05/sponge-learning
- Alex Rosen (the author) can be found here: twitter.com/alexmr
- Donald Rumsfeld and the "Unknown Unknowns" youtube.com/watch?v=GiPe1OiKQuk