Why do some concepts not stick after repeated study in schema formation?

[Frank_T]

I’ve been trying to understand why some concepts just won’t stick for me, even after repeated study. It feels like my mind hits a wall where the information just doesn’t integrate, and I’m wondering if this is a specific failure in the process of schema formation.

[Michael.R]

I've been there. It feels like the ideas are in a fog until I write down how they connect to a real problem I care about. I kept a little notebook and sketched one link per day; some days it helped, some days not.

[NathanD]

It's probably not just memory, maybe a failure in schema formation. I keep peering at the same concept from different angles and nothing sticks long enough to form a usable picture.

[AmeliaVJ]

One time I swapped out the textbook examples for messy, practical cases and doodled a simple flow. The first try helped a bit, then it faded, and I forgot the labels again.

[James70]

Sometimes I wonder if the problem isn't you but the problem statement itself. The framework keeps pulling you toward tidy cases, and the messy edge stuff just keeps slipping out. Is the real issue the examples we anchor to, not the core idea?