Learn Faster with The Feynman Technique

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[KennyVanLent]

Is there also a way of learning while asleep? As when waking up you are enthousiastic about an exam, because all of the sudden the answers are known, and are aware of.

[ScottHYoungVid]

@KennyVanLent - I've heard of subliminal systems, but I mostly think they're BS. They may have some uses I haven't explored yet, but for explicit knowledge (the kind tested on in academics) I don't think it would be very useful. That said, there are some studying methods for getting learning time out of otherwise wasted activities (waiting in lines, commuting, cooking, etc.) that we teach in the program.

[csmcmillion]

I tried this for "Understanding Women". I still don't understand them.

[Goodfellow7]

I thought this was just common sense, the Feynmann technique? Come on.

[Vonlava]

@MadMoneyGirl Women arent complicated. theyre self-conscious whores who get attention and control through sex and emotional manipulation.

[Vonlava]

@Goodfellow7 Algebra is common sense but you wouldnt have invented it.

[sodaxcandy08]

i thought of this technique by myself =D good for me!!!

[DoctorFastest]

You offer good advice for someone who has trouble keeping straight what they know and what they don't. (Admittedly this can be tricky sometimes. Especially in technical subjects, where sometimes people worry too much about vocabulary which they don't fully understand, rather than the ideas this vocabulary expresses).

But certainly this is not the ONLY moral of the Feynman topology story - in fact, that story is very much a testament to his genius.

[jcoffland]

What does your technique have to do with Feynman? It certainly doesn't fit with the story you started with.

[dondivideo]

When I was in college I had the odd experience of a couple of Mechanical Engineering graduate students coming to me - an undergraduate in psychology - when they were having trouble with homework problems. I didn't know the answers, but what the heck...? I'd ask them to work through the problem with me, and ask questions wherever I didn't understand something. At some point: "Ah," they'd say, "I know where the problem is!" Having to explain it to me, they saw what they had missed before.

[awanniexx]

Righty tighty, lefty loosy????? HAHAHAHA really???

[ClockworkGearhead]

@MadMoneyGirl Because they are not complex. Just contradictory.

[TheSmackerlacker]

Is it abnormal that I do this every day, in my head, and have done since I was very young?