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Learn Faster with The Feynman Technique

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    Richard Feynman was the nobel prize winning
    physicist
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    and tells the story of what we need to
    the mathematics department
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    and challenging anyone there to explain
    to him any identifier how difficult or
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    complicated
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    n
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    as long as they used simple terminology
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    fino complicated word so returns he
    didn't understand the explain to me you
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    know we can understand
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    he would reach dizzying conclusions that
    they did
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    and they were studying this subject
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    the stories often brought to show what a
    great genius richard finding was that he
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    was able to do this
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    but in reality anyone can do this
    technique
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    to learn anything
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    and i'm sure you can't do it
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    you can use the finding technique
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    to understand ideas that you don't
    really get
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    you can use the technique
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    remember i just better that you
    understand that you can remember
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    perfectly for tests
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    finally you can use these approaches
    really efficiently study
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    before an exam so a lot to suspect our
    scranton elibrary
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    too not that great results
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    you can use this technique and twenty
    minutes to deeply understand idea
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    they will stick with you for years
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    so let's walk through
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    the findings technique
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    signifies your own sense to learn better
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    the first step is to choose the concept
    you want to understand
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    take a blank piece of paper
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    and write that nina back concept all the
    paper
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    the second step
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    is to explain the idea of yourself as if
    you were to teaching it to someone who
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    did not understand it at all
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    this is crucial
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    because explain yourself already ideas you understand as well as the ones
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    don't understand perfectly
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    you gain a better understanding and it helps you pinpoint exactly things
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    you don't understand
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    whenever you get stuff
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    go back to the reference materials lectures were teachers system
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    and will retrieval related material until you get enough that you can explain it
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    on the paper
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    finally
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    where you write down weird your confusing explanation for something
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    try simplify the language
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    or creating analogy i understand it barely
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    you notice that use both of these and is quick demonstration
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    i've simplified the language of torque to explain charge of twisting
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    second
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    i was able to understand it terminology
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    but taking it for factor and it describing it as a course for motion
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    tightening with right
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    were losing with left
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    give us some examples of this technique they used to actual class
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    luring in physics
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    now you can use this technique for
    understanding mathematically technical
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    classes
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    carefully walked into the steps to
    explain to yourself
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    you can also use this technique and
    non-technical classes
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    understanding began dies
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    returned to put together a large amount
    of facts are confiscated the same place
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    steven understanding to remember that
    indices context
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    so how can use this technique
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    want to try to understand idea if you
    walk through this technique very slowly
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    to pinpoint exactly what you don't
    understand so you can go to the textbook
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    or a teacher or a lecture notes to figure out exactly a concept missing
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    if you try to remember the idea better for tests
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    if you go through the idea
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    and focus on creating better analogies or simplifying the words of your
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    explanations even more as you can understand it more effectively
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    finally if you want to use this technique to study for tests you can go
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    through the technique without looking at
    your reference materials that point
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    that's a really good sweet he self cast to see if you understand ideas deeply he
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    can go through it all and explain it
    deeply without referencing textbook
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    material then you understand the idea edited level
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    so go use this technique right now taking a blank piece of paper write our topic
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    that you're trying to understand ? for
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    and go through it
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    it will take fifteen minutes but he did
    not have it using this technique it's a
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    very efficiently
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    we to learn and study new material
Title:
Learn Faster with The Feynman Technique
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