How to learn anything faster with Feynman Technique (with a example).

 How to learn anything faster with Feynman Technique (with a example).

         Hi friends, today we going to learn about ‘How to learn anything faster? There’s this pretty well known quote that gets thrown around a lot and it’s often attributed to Albert Einstein.

        Now whether or not Einstein was the person who actually said this, let’s be real he probably wasn’t, it’s still really insightful and reversing it reveals a powerful piece of advice.

        This is the technique which has been called the Feynman Technique. This technique is named after the physicist Richard Feynman. But in addition to being a scientist he was also a great teacher and a great explainer. And in fact, one of his nicknames was “The Great Explainer”. Because he was able to boil down incredibly complex concepts and put them in simple language that other common people could understand. So that’s why this technique is named after him, but you don’t have to be physicists or you don’t have to working on math or science problems to use this technique, because explaining a concept  works to improve your understanding of that concept in basically an area, be it history or be it or be math, or be it web development. It doesn’t matter and it also works for different multiple purposes.

Prerequisites: As Feynman himself said,

The ultimate way to ensure that you actually understand all the nitty-gritty details of a concept in head is to explain it to someone else, or at least to pretend you’re doing so. And this is the crux of the Feynman technique. It is a four step process. 

Step 1. TAKE A PIECE OF PAPER AND WRITE THE CONCEPT’S NAME AT THE TOP

 And in the example, we are going to use the Pythagorean Theorem because it is simple and it won’t get in the way  of the actual steps.

Step 2. EXPLAIN THE CONCEPT USING SIMPLE LANGUAGE

 Secondly explain the concept in the whatever language you happen to speak. And don’t just settle with defining the concept either.  Also work through examples and make sure you’re able  to use the concept in practise, as well. 

Step 3. IDENTIFY PROBLEM AREAS, THEN GO BACK TO THE SOURCES TO REVIEW

 Identify the areas that you got stuck on and then go back to your notes or works through examples until your understanding of these subareas is just as solid as all the other areas.

Step 4. PINPOINT ANY COMPLICATED TERMS AND CHALLENGE YOURSELF TO SIMPLIFY THEM.

 And finally, step four is look at your explanation and try to find any areas where you’ve resorted to using technical terms of convoluted language and challenge yourself to break down those terms and explain them in simplified, easy to understand words. Remember, the key here is simplicity. 

Final thoughts:

The act of explaining a topic as if you were teaching  it to somebody who didn’t have  the same base assumption and base knowledge that you have is the ultimate test of your own knowledge in that subject.