The best learning method in the world: Feynman learning method

Catalog

First step ： Choose a goal

The second step ： teaching

The third step ： Error correction learning

Step four ： simplify

Summary

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Have you ever dreamed of reading a book and remembering everything ？ Whether you want to reach the peak level immediately after learning a skill ？ Unless you're a genius , Otherwise, this is impossible . For most ordinary people , You can do it in a stupid way （ Rote learning ） To achieve the purpose of learning , But it's inefficient . Of course , You can also learn through excellent learning methods , Like today “ Feynman method of learning ”, It can greatly improve your learning efficiency .

Feynman learning method is an efficient learning method invented by Canadian physicist Feynman , Feynman himself is a genius ,13 I taught myself calculus ,24 Joined the Manhattan Project at the age of （ Nuclear weapons program ）; and Google The learning methods used by founder Sergey Brin , Bill Gates, 、 Steve jobs 、 Larry Page is a fan of Feynman's learning method .

Canadian Scott .H. Yang （Scott H Young） Using this method , It took only one year to complete the self-study MIT In open class 33 A computer science course , Under normal circumstances, it takes four years to repair , And finally passed all the exams ！

Another report said ： A farmer asked his children to go to school every day and come back to the content taught , In this way, you can learn twice for a tuition fee , Just such a simple idea , His child's academic performance has always been excellent, and finally he was admitted to Tsinghua University .

Whether the above report is true or not , But it is a typical embodiment of Feynman's learning method . Feynman's method of learning is, in plain words ： By explaining something clearly to others , To make sure that you really understand it .

Now let's learn about the specific operation of Feynman learning method .

First step ： Choose a goal

The choice of goals is simple , Is to make sure what you want to learn , Or what to do . Here, for example, learning a technology 、 Study a field of science 、 Learning a language 、 Learn a concept, etc , Can be called a goal .

But if you want to set great goals , You can also learn SMART principle ：Specific Specifically 、Measurable Can be measured 、Attainable Can be realized 、Relevant The correlation 、Time—based timeliness . That is to say, the plan should be specific 、 Can be measured 、 Stick to it 、 It means something to you and you have to finish it within a certain period of time .

The second step ： teaching

Create a scene , Teach what you have learned to “ others ”. There are many problems in this process , I don't know , Don't understand , I'm also equivocal , That means that these knowledge points are not mastered skillfully . Trying to teach and find weaknesses is the point of this step .

A friend may say , No one can teach what to do ？ Actually , Teaching here is called , Specifically, many scenes can be created according to local conditions . It would be great to have a real one-to-one or one to many professor . If it's not done , It can be done by writing 、 Recording teaching video 、 Record on your cell phone 、 Practice and so on .

A common scene in daily life is , When you learn a new knowledge , You feel like you understand , But use 、 Go ahead and say 、 Or when I write it out, I find that I have no idea at all . This is the weakness of knowledge .

The third step ： Error correction learning

I ran into a problem in the second step , Then you need to go to step three —— Error correction learning . Whether it's in the process of teaching, say wrong 、 I don't know 、 Ambiguity needs to be reinforced in this step . Check the information repeatedly 、 Study 、 Strengthen memory , Then repeat the second step to verify , Until we can teach the corresponding knowledge smoothly .

The combination of the second step and the third step is different from the traditional topic sea tactics , The reason why the sea Title tactics are not effective , It's because most people are just doing what they can do most of the time , And ignore the content that won't be , That is to say “ Replace high-quality thinking with low-cost diligence ”.

Step four ： simplify

This step is to refine the above learning 、 simplify , Remove unnecessary , Redundant information , And can use their own language easy to understand the expression , Instead of following the book .

In fact, there is another point in this step , It's simplified to be able to use analogy , Let a nonprofessional person （ To exaggerate, it's children ） Can understand . here , You will really master this learning method .

Summary

Sometimes we feel like we know later , That's because I study too little , Know too little , Many problems predecessors have summarized the ready-made methods and schemes , We don't know , Still exploring by yourself , Slow, of course , After you know it . Only by standing on the shoulders of giants can we see further .