What is reflective practice?

Reflective practice is a concept in personal epistemology: Regularly recording observations about recurring events builds pattern recognition skill.

Example: You notice you're exhausted every Wednesday afternoon. Without a journal, that observation dissolves by Thursday morning. But after three weeks of writing 'Wednesday 2pm — crashed again, couldn't focus, skipped the gym,' you see it clearly: your heaviest meeting load lands on Wednesday mornings, and the cognitive drain compounds. The pattern was always there. The journal made it visible.

This concept is part of Phase 6 (Pattern Recognition) in the How to Think curriculum, which builds the epistemic infrastructure for pattern recognition.