We explicitly advise CFAR workshop attendees to do a version of Derive; in the opening session we call it “Adjust Your Seat,” and it’s mostly about techniques being idiosyncratic and people needing to do different versions of them as appropriate (Focusing for skeptics is a good example of this). CFAR’s gone through a lot of different metaphors for this. Beyond finding a better fit this has the possibility of just finding a better general version of the technique and then we can upgrade the class, which is cool.
I often do a version of Derive while learning math, which looks like this: at some point, hear about a cool theorem, and maybe even learn a little bit about its proof, then partially or completely forget the proof and (optionally) partially forget the theorem, then try to rederive it, not knowing how much of the rederivation was just remembering. Even if it was nearly all remembering this has the effect that the theorem feels like it’s mine in a way it didn’t before and I’ll never forget it after that.
We explicitly advise CFAR workshop attendees to do a version of Derive; in the opening session we call it “Adjust Your Seat,” and it’s mostly about techniques being idiosyncratic and people needing to do different versions of them as appropriate (Focusing for skeptics is a good example of this). CFAR’s gone through a lot of different metaphors for this. Beyond finding a better fit this has the possibility of just finding a better general version of the technique and then we can upgrade the class, which is cool.
I often do a version of Derive while learning math, which looks like this: at some point, hear about a cool theorem, and maybe even learn a little bit about its proof, then partially or completely forget the proof and (optionally) partially forget the theorem, then try to rederive it, not knowing how much of the rederivation was just remembering. Even if it was nearly all remembering this has the effect that the theorem feels like it’s mine in a way it didn’t before and I’ll never forget it after that.