Me too. Mid 40's and trying to figure out how to make something stick, especially with stuff I had learned years ago (linear algebra especially).
I have recently come to the revelation that the notion of "rote" that I had always eschewed in favor of "a true and deep understanding" should no longer be so eschewed.
I've recently adopted Anki (that other people love so much on this forum) as a way of forcing me to catalog forevermore the inherent vocabulary of things that cannot stick without internalizing. I now have an Anki board for Rust, Linear Algebra and APL. Fingers crossed it will work.
Another meta-learning technique I have found extremely useful is creating an ontology map. The act of copying down a term and relating it to others spatially gives me so much more context. Here's a nasty one I did seven years ago: https://i.imgur.com/MYCsl7F.png
I have recently come to the revelation that the notion of "rote" that I had always eschewed in favor of "a true and deep understanding" should no longer be so eschewed.
I've recently adopted Anki (that other people love so much on this forum) as a way of forcing me to catalog forevermore the inherent vocabulary of things that cannot stick without internalizing. I now have an Anki board for Rust, Linear Algebra and APL. Fingers crossed it will work.
Another meta-learning technique I have found extremely useful is creating an ontology map. The act of copying down a term and relating it to others spatially gives me so much more context. Here's a nasty one I did seven years ago: https://i.imgur.com/MYCsl7F.png