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What topic are you curious about?
Once you identify a topic, take out a blank sheet of paper. Write out everything you know about the subject you want to understand as if you were teaching it to a child.
As you learn more about the topic, add it to your sheet. Often people find it helpful to use a different color pen so you can see your learning grow.
Once you think you understand the topic, move on to step 2.
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To test your understanding in the real world, run it by someone else. How effective was your explanation? What questions did they ask? What parts did they get confused about?
When you’re happy with your understanding, take the page you created with a simple explanation and put it into a bi...
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Now when you think that you understand a topic reasonably well, explain it to a 12-year-old.
Use your sheet as a reference and try to remove any jargon or complexity. Only use simple words. Only use words a child would understand.
Anyone can make a subject complicated but only someon...
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Only when you can explain the subject in simple terms do you understand it.
Simple is beautiful.
Review your notes to make sure you didn’t mistakenly borrow any jargon or gloss over anything complicated.
Read it out loud as if to a child. If the explanation isn’t simple enough o...
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Richard Feynman was a Nobel prize-winning physicist. His real superpower, however, was his ability to explain complicated subjects to others in simple terms. He realized that jargon, vague words, and complexity reveal a lack of un...
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Feynman understood the difference between understanding something and knowing the name of something , and it’s one of the most important reasons for his success. He was never content with just knowing the name of something. ...
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Other curated ideas on this topic:
1. Identify the subject. Write down everything you know about the topic. Each time you run into new sources of information, add them to the note.
2. Teach it to a child. Write plain and simple so even a child can understand what you're talking about.3. Identify your knowled...
If you can't explain it with simple words, you don't really understand it. So write out everything you know about a subject as if you were teaching it to someone else.
Go beyond the professional jargon and assess if you really understand that complicated terminology.
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