How to Learn Anything with the Feynman Technique
Why teaching is the key to understanding
There’s no miracle people. It just happens they got interested in this thing and they learned all this stuff. There’s just people.” – Richard Feynman*
What Is the Feynman Technique for Learning?
“I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.” – Richard Feynman
The 4 Steps of the Feynman Technique
How the Feynman Technique Works
“I couldn’t reduce it to the freshman level. That means we really don’t understand it.” – Richard Feynman
1. Choose a Concept to Learn
2. Explain it to yourself or teach it to someone else
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.” – Richard Feynman
3. Return to the source material if you get stuck
4. Simplify your explanations and create your own analogies
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Fadeke Adegbuyi
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