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Seems like it works the same way that showing somebody else your unfixable bug and explaining to them why it's impossible works for fixing it. Having to teach/e
by llimllib 18y ago
Seems like it works the same way that showing somebody else your unfixable bug and explaining to them why it's impossible works for fixing it. Having to teach/explain/write about a topic without a book forces you to examine your implicit beliefs about it, to show you where you've left holes.
- lutorm 18y agoI think you're partially right, but I think there's also something else going on here. The key about the memory is recall. Just writing multiple times (ie reading the book over and over) doesn't increase the reliability of memorization as much as reading the address. It seems the act of forcing the brain to find the information makes it put more effort into indexing that piece of info. I think that's apart from the effect you are talking about which is about how you integrate information when forced to explain it in a coherent way.
- 10ren 18y agoMaybe a way to think about it is that practicing placing it into memory makes you get better at placing it into memory; and practicing recalling that information from memory makes you get get better at recalling it from memory. I've noticed that I know I lot of things that are difficult for me to recall: there's not much point having something in memory if you can't recall it, so maybe that's the important thing to practice?