If I asked you to calculate 57 x 4,389 in your heads, no cheating, and in the space of a minute, I’m pretty confident most of you would fail. And in the process of failing, you’d likely do one of two things:
Whichever of these two paths you took, you wouldn’t calculate the answer and wouldn’t, therefore, encode anything into long-term memory.
Put simply, you wouldn’t learn anything new or practise something you already knew. This complex thing called “learning” would not occur.
Now, if I were to ask you to calculate 2 x 10, once again in your heads and in the space of a minute, I’m confident all of you would succeed this time. And you wouldn’t need a full minute to do so either. In fact, you’d proffer your answer instantaneously.
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