Working definition
Evidence as fuel — When a move is evidence — as automatic as your name — friction collapses; flashcards and success criteria manufacture that evidence.
How it works
Willpower fights a foggy goal. Evidence as fuel collapses the fight: when success criteria and the next micro-move are as automatic as your name, you stop negotiating.
Flashcard + Active Recall manufacture evidence. Transfer of Certainty is what happens when evidence flips the switch — if this guaranteed the outcome, I would already be doing it.
Put evidence on the success recipe and on the failure recipe so the gap is visible.
Signature
evidence as automatic as your name.
Room: 2026-07-20.
Your move: Your move this week.
Your move this week
- Create one flashcard that turns a vague goal into a concrete success definition — review until the answer is instant.
Scientific grounding
Cite
- Roediger, H. L., & Karpicke, J. D. (2006). Test-enhanced learning: Taking memory tests improves long-term retention. Psychological Science, 17(3), 249–255.
- Karpicke, J. D. (2009). Metacognitive strategies in student learning: Do students practise retrieval when they study on their own?. Memory, 17(4), 471–479.
Flashcards manufacture evidence because retrieval practice beats restudy for durable access — the same mechanism as “as automatic as your name.”