chelonian

> There's a very particular pain you get when you know you had something and you lost it; or worse, you know you threw it away.

CONSOLATION GROOK

Losing one glove is certainly painful, but nothing compared to the pain, of losing one, throwing away the other, and finding the first one again.

--Piet Hein https://www.phys.ufl.edu/~thorn/grooks.html

There is ample evidence to support the idea that testing oneself is a great method for increasing retention (review and meta-analysis: https://www.gwern.net/docs/spaced-repetition/2021-yang.pdf).

Also, you seem to have just read the CFA and CAIA once. If it is detail-heavy, there's no way for most mere mortals that is going to stick around for months. To really learn detailed, dry material in a way that sticks, you have to immerse yourself in it for much longer than that. Most people only retain details that are part of their work on a daily or at least monthly basis.

You have to try to see them as kind of Muppets. These moths are easy in that regard. They are sort of a mixture of silly looking, beautiful, and cutely clumsy.

There are some repellant looking arthropods, but these moths are the beginner level in getting used to looking at such creatures.

I think the solution is to always add just a few more words at the end of a sentence:

> Dr Johnson kicked a large rock and said, as his foot rebounded, “I refute it thus.” and then said no more.