The only flaw I find with this is that if I get stuck on an exercise, I reach the following decision: should I look at the answer and move on, or should I keep at it.
If I choose the first option, this makes me feel like I’ve cheated. I’m not sure what it is about human psychology, but I think that if you’ve cheated once, you feel less guilty a second time because “I’ve already done it.” So, I start cheating more and more, until soon enough I’m just skipping things and cutting corners again.
If I choose the second option, then I might be stuck for several hours, and this causes me to just abandon the textbook develop an ugh field around it.
The only flaw I find with this is that if I get stuck on an exercise, I reach the following decision: should I look at the answer and move on, or should I keep at it.
If I choose the first option, this makes me feel like I’ve cheated. I’m not sure what it is about human psychology, but I think that if you’ve cheated once, you feel less guilty a second time because “I’ve already done it.” So, I start cheating more and more, until soon enough I’m just skipping things and cutting corners again.
If I choose the second option, then I might be stuck for several hours, and this causes me to just abandon the textbook develop an ugh field around it.
Maybe commit to spending at least N minutes on any exercise before looking up the answer?
Perhaps it says something about the human brain (or just mine) that I did not immediately think of that as a solution.