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"We all know that confusion doesn't feel good. Because it seems like an obstacle to learning, we try to arrange educational experiences and training sessions so that learners will encounter as little confusion as possible. But as is so often the case when it comes to learning, our intuitions here are exactly wrong." Via Beth Dichter Delete the scoop?
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So creating confusion is good? Why? It turns out that "brain is a pattern-recognition machine." It wants to find connections between "related events or artifacts." To do this we must allow our brain to experience "that confused, confounded feeling...—for two reasons."
For the first reason ask yourself is there only one way to solve a problem, or should one "explore a wide variety of potential explanations"? The second reason is that if we feel confused, not sure of the answer, we are more driven to figure it out.
So how can we do this? There are three ways that researchers have "induced confusion" and each is listed with an explanation. The three ways:
* Expose yourself to confusing materials.
* Withhold the answers from yourself.
* Test yourself before you learn.
This post provides some great ideas on why confusion is good. You will also find a link to the three research studies mentioned in the article.