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Psychologist Robert Bjork addresses this issue by calling for desirable difficulties : actions that appear to work worse in the short-term but work better in the long run. These include:
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There’s another possible benefit to practice variability.
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The issue with this blocked approach is ...
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The exact mechanisms behind the value of desirable difficulties are still being debated.
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A key strategy for getting better at things is hill-climbing : try different things, keep doing the things that work, stop doing those that don’t.
It likely explains how we get better at many things simply by doing them repeatedly. Where this strategy
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