Based on my understanding of the learning process, typically you can tell when a refactor is occurring if you go through "Foundational Collapse," meaning that you've learned something that makes almost your entire understanding of the subject - even one that you've known for a while, to fail. This occurs until you are able to rework your entire understanding of the subject to fit the new criteria. This occurs more easily the better you understand the subject in the first place, as long as you understand what is happening and you give your brain an opportunity to contextualize the information.
Since this is done by the DMN instead of working memory, when this occurs I think that the best thing you can do is take a weekend off. When you are learning aggressively, like at a high level university, I imagine that a student will go through several of these a year in various subjects.
Since this is done by the DMN instead of working memory, when this occurs I think that the best thing you can do is take a weekend off. When you are learning aggressively, like at a high level university, I imagine that a student will go through several of these a year in various subjects.