🔼: [[⭐️ Learning]] # Generation An attempt to solve a problem before being taught the solution. Even if you're wrong, you're able to better retain the answer when you [[⭐️ Learning|Learn]] it. Even without someone to give us feedback, we learn better if we do it ourselves. Filling in a missing word in a sentence results in better retention than reading a complete sentence. Experimental Learning is a form of Generation. Learning by doing rather than reading. Set out to do a task, find a problem, try to solve the problem without help unless you really need it, and you're far more likely to remember what you've learned. Try to explain key ideas of a text and how it relates to your other interested before you read it, then see if you're right. Try to solve math problems before you're taught how. Skip video game tutorials.