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Kamal Mustafa

Initially reading Pragmatic Thinking and Learning by Andy Hunt relate this quite well.

Play in Order to Learn
Your brain is designed such that you need to explore and build mental models on your own. You’re not really designed to passively sit by and try to store received knowledge. There’s a time and a place for both of these activities, but in the normal course of events, we get it wrong: exploring, or “playing with,” the material should come before studying facts.