The intention to learn has no power of its own — retention is determined by the operations you actually ran on the material.
Mandler’s sorting experiment: people told to memorise did about as well as people told only to categorise, because both processed meaning. Judge a session by what you did, not by how hard it felt.
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prerequisite-of →Producing your own sentence about an idea encodes durably; recognising someone else’s does almost nothing.Establishes why technique beats effort at all. Once intention is ruled out as a mechanism, the only remaining lever is which operation you perform — which is the whole argument for generation.