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Summary
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Practicing active retrieval on a lag schedule as your learning is a great way to learn and improve connections to previous topics.
Reflecting on each practice as well, of what went well and what connections can you make, make learning stick much better. This directly influences our metacognition muscle - it improve when we are assessed at a delay, and very poor when we’re assessed immediately after.