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Step2: Explain It To A 12 Year Old
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 someone who understand it can make simple.
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Step4: Organize And Review
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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Step3: Reflect, Refine And Simplify
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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Step1: Choose A Concept You Want To Learn About
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 h...
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