The more confident a learner is of their wrong answer, the better the information sticks when they subsequently learn the right answer. Tolerating big mistakes can create the best learning opportunities
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The "need to be right" all the time is a kind of fixed mindset that interferes with personal growth. People who want to be right about everything prevent themselves from learning from their mistakes. They fall prey to the Dunning-Kruger effect, where they assume they know more th...
Mistakes are learning opportunities. One can analyze what went wrong, what to avoid and how to do better in the future.
Anyone can use these basic principles to make learning more effective.
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