>> First, can’t practice itself blind us to ways to improve our area of study? Research reveals that the more we practice, the more we become entrenched — trapp

>> First, can’t practice itself blind us to ways to improve our area of study? Research reveals that the more we practice, the more we become entrenched — trapped in familiar ways of thinking. The only way practice traps you in familiar ways of thinking is if you focus practice only on the things that are familiar to you. Letting Anki help schedule your practices is a way to avoid this. Here is what I do. - Review phase: Do exercises based on whatever is up for review. - Attack the weakness phase: Spend extra time reteaching yourself the stuff one you feel you did poorly on. - Project phase: As you work on interesting challenging projects, add new Anki cards as you encounter and learn new things. It's a good technique which I think could be accessible to a lot of children. Let them choose the area of interest. Just instill in them a sense of discipline in whatever area THEY choose to pursue.