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Call it the “learning paradox”: the more you struggle and even fail while you’re trying to master new information, the better you’re likely to recall and apply that information later.

second group was directed to solve the same problems by collaborating with one another, absent any prompts from their instructor.

the second group “significantly outperformed” the first.

turn to social media, to interact with other humans. But this whole issue is not just Millennials, it's society in general that appear to be addicted to their social media

But first, a caveat: there are exceptions to every generalization I am about to make.

irresolvable paradox that, without writing, we would not have Plato's staging of this discussion nor any record at all of Socrates' encounter with Phaedrus or of the Socratic method, nor indeed would there have been an Athens, as such, to remember.

Plato’s struggle with the relatively new technology of writing