To master any subject quickly, not necessarily to stay up all night and cram all the literature on this issue, says Nobel prize winner in physics Richard Feynman.
He formulated a learning algorithm that will help faster and deeper understanding of any topic. To do this, as it turned out, need to do a few simple steps, transfer mizky.com.
Feynman came to the formula of the training, which allowed him to understand things better than others. This formula is called “Feynman’s method”, and it helps to study any subject deeper and faster.
Topic, subject or concept that you would like to learn, don’t matter. “Feynman’s method” works everywhere, and very easy to implement.
To master this method, you need to do 4 simple steps.
Step 1. Teach this child
Take a sheet of paper and write on it what you want to know. Write down what you know on this subject like to explain that to the child. Not your adult and well-educated girlfriend, and eight-year-old child who has enough vocabulary and the ability to concentrate, to understand the basic concepts.
Most people tend to use complex words and jargon when you don’t understand something. The problem is that we lie to ourselves because we don’t understand exactly what do not know. The use of jargon intended to hide from others, our lack of understanding.
While maintaining the ideas from beginning to end in simple words, familiar even to a child (use only the most common words), you’re helping yourself to understand its essence on a deeper level, and simplify relationship and communication between the concepts.
If you make the effort, then clearly see where there are gaps. And that’s good, because they point to the opportunity to learn.
Step 2. Repeat
During the first step you will need to deal with knowledge gaps: where you forgot something important, could not explain or simply experienced difficulties in combination of important concepts. This is very important, because you have opened the border of their knowledge.
Competence is knowledge of the limits of your own abilities, and you only found one of them! This is the point at which to start training. Now you know the essence, so go back to the source material and learn again until you can explain it in simple terms.
The clarification of the boundaries of your knowledge also restricts the errors that you tend to avoid and increases the chances of success when applying first.
Step 3. Organize and simplify
In the end, you have a number of handwritten notes. Review them and make sure that is mistakenly put there some technical term from the source material. Now fold of them a simple story. Read it out loud. If the explanation looks pretty simple or strange sounds, it is an indication that your skills need improvement.
Step 4 (Optional): Share
If you want to be confident in their understanding of the topic, share your own knowledge with someone (better if this man poorly versed in the subject, or find an eight year old). The best test of subject knowledge – the ability to transmit it to others.
