...a fascinating window of insight into that “functional architecture” of our problem-solving minds. Simply put, if we prompt ourselves to try to generate an answer for something we don’t know before we go try to learn it, we learn better.[3] When we pre-test ourselves, even if it’s just guessing at the answer, we have a stronger memory for what we’ve learned, and often we take away a deeper…

...a fascinating window of insight into that “functional architecture” of our problem-solving minds. Simply put, if we prompt ourselves to try to generate an answer for something we don’t know before we go try to learn it, we learn better.[3] When we pre-test ourselves, even if it’s just guessing at the answer, we have a stronger memory for what we’ve learned, and often we take away a deeper…