[ Reflection ]

If you are learning and gaining experience, and you’re given the option to either a) get more experience in it or b) reflect, articulate and codify the experience already accumulated, instincts say you’d choose a) practise more.

I would’ve.

But some research* shows, counterintuitively, that “reflection and review” of past experience is a superior mode of learning and ‘bedding in’, for some types of knowledge anyway.  I was completely surprised by that finding.

So, ‘reflection’ on nascent knowledge is better than more experience with it.  Structured reflection with a mentor or coach is more valuable than taking another training course.