Learning is often understood as the process of recognizing, correcting, and preventing mistakes. But Benny believes that if you want to become proficient in a language, rather than aiming to reduce your mistakes, you should strive to increase them. It turns out that he’s right. Many experiments have shown that when students are learning new information, if they’re randomly assigned to guess wrong before being given the right answer, they’re less likely to make errors later on tests. When we’re encouraged to make mistakes, we end up making fewer of them. Early mistakes help us remember the
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