Well, learning something is quite hard for some people, not some people I think for many people. Getting knowledge is the key process of learning. if we want to achieve something, learning helps to make that process very easy.
We deal with a lot of stuff every day that require knowledge, skills, hard work.
but wait how we get that??? "books" I mean seriously 'books' ??
I have to study a whole lot of book?? Dude seriously who have so much time?
but wait a minute? the answer is yes obviously.
Sounds crazy but that's the truth. Books have a great meaning in delivering a vast knowledge that is why we read everything from books in schools, colleges, blah blah...
Coming back to learning, it can be in any field like learning programming languages, learning maths, learning chemistry, learning physics, even learning rocket science...
We all do learning in some or other way. That's how we educate ourselves.
but what if this process becomes very simple that it's a fun way process rather than a boring process.
Well, there was a guy named Richard Phillips Feynman.
he was an American theoretical physicist, known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as in particle physics for which he proposed the parton model. For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman, jointly with Julian Schwinger and Shin'ichirÅ Tomonaga, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965.
The point here is not telling the history of Richard Feynman but the real point is to highlight his idea behind the way of studying or learning something. So Feynman proposed a technique called "The Feynman Technique".
The purpose of Learning is completed only when you understand that thing completely. And also if you can explain it to someone simply.
A quote by Albert Einstein here is perfect to mention:
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
The Feynman technique is a method for learning or reviewing a concept quickly by explaining it in plain, simple language.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
So the Feynman technique is explained in 4 steps, follow these steps blindly:
1. identify the topic :
write down the name of the concept on top of a blank paper.
2. identify relevant points :
write down everything you know about the topic, and consistently add new points to it, each time when you know something new about that topic. write it in simple plain words. "don't use jargons or difficult vocabulary".
3. teach it to a child :
if you can teach a concept to a child, then you can teach it to anyone, that means you have a better understanding of that topic.
4. identify gaps:
So what you are missing? and what you don't know?? just try to fill that gap.
5. review + simplify:
review your concept and check all the shortcomings, and try to make it even more simple. remove any ambiguity, mistakes in the concept.
Conclusion:
so this way you make the learning process easier and simpler. I know maybe you're thinking that what is the rocket science in this process, I mean we all know this. but do we really follow this approach???
just when we decide to make a change in our habit, the thing also gets change. just try it once...
Please share this post with school and college students, your children, friends and family. maybe it will help them to earn more marks and maybe it can change there learning style.. go ahead... Good Luck!!!
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