Coaching practices for Where Did I Learn This
Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For Where Did I Learn This, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I explained it once, it felt great, and I declared myself done
- A term jumps out as familiar so I assume I know what it means
- I’ve put in the hours but I still meet every problem in my field like it’s brand new, working it out from scratch
- I’ve done dozens of language-app lessons and watched hours of tutorials, but the second I’m in a real conversation
- I learn something from one example and feel sure I understand it, then the moment it shows up looking even slightly different I don’t recognize it
Practices that may help
- Run the loop until it is smooth
Repeat explain–diagnose–relearn until you can explain the whole thing without snags.
The Feynman Technique, Step by Step - Source monitoring
When you feel you know something, also ask yourself where you learned it and how recently.
Feeling of Knowing: Why Your Confidence Misleads You - Deliberate pattern exposure
Study worked examples and annotated cases to build a library of recognizable patterns.
Chunking: How Experts See What Beginners Miss - Directness: practice the real thing
Learn by doing the actual skill, not a comfortable proxy for it.
Ultralearning: Aggressive, Self-Directed Learning - Use multiple varied examples to map the concept’s true shape
Three different examples reveal what one example hides — the edges of the concept.
Concrete Examples: How to Make Abstract Ideas Stick - Use what you couldn’t teach as your study list
The moments you fumbled while teaching are exactly what to go back and learn.
The Protege Effect: Learn It Better by Teaching It - Extract a transferable principle, not just a description
Ask "what general lesson could I carry into a different situation?" to lock in the learning.
Structured Reflection: Kolb’s Learning Cycle in Practice - Retention: build in spacing so it lasts
Schedule what you learn to come back over time, not just at the start.
Ultralearning: Aggressive, Self-Directed Learning - Study multiple varied examples of the same principle before generalizing
Comparing examples that share a deep principle but differ on surface features builds transferable knowledge faster than repetition of similar examples.
The Worked Examples Effect: Learn Faster by Studying Solutions First - Follow explicit rules and procedures without improvisation at the novice stage
When new to a domain, follow the given rules precisely — understanding comes after compliance, not before.
The Dreyfus Model: Five Stages from Novice to Expert
Related concerns
- How To Transfer Learning
Vary the surface features of problems once the deep structure is learned to build transferable knowledge.
Introduce variability once basic schemas are formed
- Iterate Learning
Schedule what you learn to come back over time, not just at the start.
Retention: build in spacing so it lasts
- Schema Transfer Learning
Vary the surface features of problems once the deep structure is learned to build transferable knowledge.
- Transfer Of Learning
Vary the surface features of problems once the deep structure is learned to build transferable knowledge.
- Applying Lessons Learned
Close the loop by deciding specifically how you will apply the extracted lesson next time.
Plan a concrete experiment to test your new principle
- Concept Generalization
Study what a concept is not — cases that almost fit — to prevent over-generalization.
Use non-examples to sharpen concept boundaries
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