Richard Feynman was one of the most prolific physicists of all time. His pedagogy became so famous that Bill Gates claimed that he was the greatest teacher he never had.
You can use the Feynman Technique to incorporate some of the best and well-practiced study techniques in the world and learn your information much better.
You can use this technique to better learn more concepts and study much more efficiently.
It’s a very simple technique but a very powerful one, something that you can use with anything you study.
First, identify the subject – write down everything you know about that subject. If you just read a chapter of biology textbook, write down all the things that you learned and you remember.
Second, pretend like you’re teaching the concepts to a child, this will help you better consolidate the information and form connections in your brain. It’ll help you make sure that you get your brain wrapped around the topics, and you’ll better understand it as you pretend to explain it to somebody else as simply as possible.
Third, identify all gaps in your knowledge – when you figure out what you’re missing, then you’ll better identify what you are missing and what you need to study. It’ll also help you monitor your own progress, helping you to develop your own knowledge base better.
Finally, organize all the information, simplify it, and tell a story about it. Once you know what you’re missing and you've filled those holes, you should much better be able to explain the whole story, and keep it in your brain much better and much more nicely. This will help you remember the information forever, and will help you be able to explain that information in a clear, precise, and consolidated way.
He also explained that you can use your passions in the arts to bolster what you’re learning – through a more multidisciplinary way. Use your knowledge and background and talents in music, arts, drawing, etc. to bolster and develop your own knowledge and draw inspiration.
That’s it for now. Try this technique the next time you study, and I’m confident it’ll help you a lot in your studying journey!
Naman
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