This is good for building, bad for learning.

You miss so much when you’re solving a problem.

You can solve a million problems and not truly learn a thing.

Learning comes from taking an input and using a feedback loop to know what to retain and delete.

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Where does your retention/deletion criteria come from?

I would argue it comes from a bigger framing, a goal that you already determined. Or at least it should be the case.

Training a skill is part of learning. But it is not the whole picture. That is why public schooling fails. It does train you to acquire skills, just not those *you* decided to learn for your own reasons. Thus it fails to actually teach anything.

Clear goals first, practice second. Helps you stay motivated.

Retention / deletion criteria is subconscious

True learning should help the command function as a feedback loop

Bad learning hurts it though (as I know because I’m always lost and why I’m relearning N, S, and geomagnetic axis vs the Google map)