The same material can come to you five ways: a text digest, a comparison table, an audio overview in your headphones, a mind map, slides.
Recall how you prepared for your last important conversation — an interview, a defense, a negotiation. What form did you need the material in back then? Now recall your commute or workout: would the same form have worked there?
Form is not decoration. Form is the answer to "where and why will I consume this."
Getting it wrong is fine: it is part of learning. Guessing first helps the answer stick later, and the answer itself comes after the explanation.
Copy your personal prompt and paste it into your agent's learn mode — it picks up your context and takes you forward.
Honestly: with AI it feels like you can do more than you can without it. After practice, check yourself without AI. (Bastani et al., PNAS 2025)
Explains the material using the course method.