Two doors.

A one-minute experiment on your own memory. You'll see eight words for eight seconds. Memorize what you can.

Memorize these.

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Door one — recall

Type the words you remember, in any order.

Door two — recognition

Same memory, new door. Tap the words you saw.

Same memory, two doors. Recall asks your mind to generate the past from nothing; recognition only asks it to verify what's put in front of it. Most of what you "forgot" at door one was still in there — it needed the easier door.

Worth building around: when you want someone's judgment, hand them options to recognize. Make them generate from blank only when generating is the skill being trained.