5. Teach What You Learn
Try your best to explain to others what you learned that day. You will know if you understand it if you can break it down to a simple level.
Do this by giving good examples to help the person you are teaching understand it quickly.
311
801 reads
CURATED FROM
IDEAS CURATED BY
Visionary and Writer at Tavian’s Blog. Writing to inspire creators, and encourage others to be their best selves.
The idea is part of this collection:
Learn more about education with this collection
Effective note-taking techniques
Test-taking strategies
How to create a study schedule
Related collections
Similar ideas to 5. Teach What You Learn
Teach to know
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.
Teach What You Learn
One of the more surprising ways you can learn a new skill is to teach it to someone else.
When we learn with the intention to teach, we break the material down into simple, understandable chunks for ourselves. It also forces us to examine the topic more critically and thoroughly, hel...
Pretend To Teach A Concept
- Take out a blank sheet of paper.
- Write the name of the subject as your heading.
- Then write down everything you know about the subject as if you were teaching it to a child. Try and explain as simply as possible.
Read & Learn
20x Faster
without
deepstash
with
deepstash
with
deepstash
Personalized microlearning
—
100+ Learning Journeys
—
Access to 200,000+ ideas
—
Access to the mobile app
—
Unlimited idea saving
—
—
Unlimited history
—
—
Unlimited listening to ideas
—
—
Downloading & offline access
—
—
Supercharge your mind with one idea per day
Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.
I agree to receive email updates