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by DanBC 4039 days ago
Teach other people - it's a great way to discover how solidly you understand something and where gaps in your knowledge are.
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I believe this is a great answer. One way of doing that, in my opinion, is writing blog posts explaining things. When I do that, I invariably end up doubting about some things that I write, doing small experiments to see whether something is always true, etc. So in effect, the act of talking/writing/explaining something, makes you analyze what you think you know, and search for where that ends, how that breaks, etc.