We are often unnecessarily harsh on ourselves. Struggling to learn new things and forgetting what we thought we should have learned by now can be very frustrating. But please don't jump to conclusions about your abilities, because there are certain types of information that tend to slip away, even when you try really, really, really hard to learn them. Meet these baddies: 1. Meaningless information You know you're dealing with one when a native speaker (or even your language