Errors are requisite for most every type of intentional learning (as an adult). Dr Alan Castel, of UCLA on the Huberman Lab podcast out now.

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Like toddlers falling over themselves and failing without shame. Best way to learn

Andrew, that makes me feel much better about my learning curve 😜

I used to be very averse of committing errors, until I realized that it’s not avoiding them that I can become better, but going through and learning from them that I will gain mastery over what I want to do. It’s really life changing.

Thats why baseball is the game of life.

First attempt at learning

I feel like it's the same for kids, no?

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the most human form of reinforcement learning

Totally makes sense—like when you mess up a recipe a dozen times before finally getting it right.

Dr. Montessori saw mistakes as "Senor Errore", a great source of learning. Montessori learning materials embody auto-didactic controls of error, but many others rely on the child's own perception and their freely chosen repetition of the work.

Every mistake is just a plot twist in your epic fitness novel.

The mechanism is prediction error. Your brain only reweights when an outcome differs from what it expected, so a wrong guess you then correct leaves a stronger trace than smooth errorless drilling. Feeling fluent while you study usually means too few errors to learn much.