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Is deliberately screwing up the best way to learn?

Eric Barker
April 1, 2012

Being guided into mistakes during training led to greater confidence and overall better learning than being taught to prevent errors.

Via The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work:

In one experiment where 90 people went through a software training program, half were taught to prevent errors from occurring, while the other half were guided into mistakes during training. And lo and behold, the group encouraged to make errors not only exhibited greater feelings of self-efficacy, but because they had learned to figure their own way out of mistakes, they were also far faster and more accurate in how they used the software later on.

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Title Is deliberately screwing up the best way to learn?
Author Eric Barker
Date April 1, 2012 6:31 PM UTC (11 years ago)
Blog bakadesuyo
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