Review, Reflect, Adjust

What you will learn

• Learn to review a past attempt honestly, naming both strengths and misses instead of collapsing into either praise or self criticism.
• Spot repeated mistakes across several attempts, not just isolated errors, and identify likely causes underneath the symptoms.
• Learn why changing only one variable at a time produces clearer improvement than changing everything at once.
• Combine the lesson's insights into a reusable Improvement Loop Card you can pull out after any future task.

What happens in this lesson

1. Chapter 1: What Worked, What Did Not

   Learn to review a past attempt honestly, naming both strengths and misses instead of collapsing into either praise or self criticism.

   What you make: A saved review record of one real past attempt using keep, stop, adjust, and watch for categories.

2. Chapter 2: Error Patterns

   Spot repeated mistakes across several attempts, not just isolated errors, and identify likely causes underneath the symptoms.

   What you make: A saved error pattern list showing one repeated slip and its likely cause.

3. Chapter 3: Change One Variable

   Learn why changing only one variable at a time produces clearer improvement than changing everything at once.

   What you make: A saved adjustment experiment note naming one variable the learner will change next and why.

4. Chapter 4: Improvement Loop Card

   Combine the lesson's insights into a reusable Improvement Loop Card you can pull out after any future task.

   What you make: A completed Improvement Loop Card covering review, pattern, adjustment, and check.

5. Chapter 5: Improvement Under Constraints

   Apply the review-pattern-adjust loop to a real situation with competing causes, limited time, and incomplete information, then justify the best next change.

   What you make: A saved constraint-based improvement plan naming the best variable to change, the evidence behind it, and the tradeoff it solves.