"Feynman technique" learning method
Mr. Feynman is a Jew, the winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics in the United States, and is regarded as the wisest theoretical physicist after Einstein, and also the first person to put forward the concept of nano. The developer of the American atomic bomb, a professor at California Institute of Technology.
Mr. Feynman is an emotional person. His first wife was her high school classmate, who was seriously ill. Feynman insisted on marrying her despite her parents' opposition, and the wedding place was in the car on the way to take her to the hospital. From then on, no matter where she went, she took her sick wife to the nearest hospital, ensuring that she had time to accompany her every week until her death. During the working hours when they can't be with their wives, they write letters every day. In order to prevent the disclosure of important scientific research secrets, they communicate with their own invented passwords. Feynman likes painting and art in his later years. These are the "most important things" that his wife once told him.
Feynman is a great learner with outstanding achievements. What made him famous was his Feynman skill learning method.
specifically, it is a learning process:
Step 1: Accept the concept
? Write down the concept you want to learn and understand on a piece of white paper, and record all your understanding of it as much as possible.
Step 2: Explain the concept
Imagine telling your understanding to an 8-year-old child and trying your best to make him understand. The language should be as simple and understandable as possible, and the time should be short.
? If you don't understand anything in this process, or if the language is not popular enough, it means that your understanding is not thorough enough, so you need to go back and continue learning.
Step 3: Go back to study
Go back to continue studying. Read notes, find information, and ask others for advice until you can make it clear completely without obstacles.
Step 4: Simplify and Metaphor
When you can thoroughly understand a concept, you can explain it briefly and easily in various ways. Metaphor and analogy are common methods.
Feynman's skill is simply to explain a concept to others in one's own language. Get into the habit of 2 minutes every day, and then you will accumulate more and more knowledge points. After integration, there will be more and more links between knowledge points, which will help you master one or even more knowledge quickly. This is a good way to learn.
Feynman technique is not only used to consolidate the knowledge that has been learned, but also helpful for exams. It can also be used to learn new knowledge and build a rich knowledge network system. Before learning new knowledge, in order to overcome the fear of difficulties or disgust, we can smell these questions first.
1. What is the core idea of this book (article)?
2. where can this knowledge point be used?
3. What common sense can I combine with it in my life?
4. Can I explain this knowledge with the best "metaphor"?
5. According to my understanding, can I define this knowledge in my own way?
writing here, learning is really a pleasant thing, because it is linked to my life and internalized into a part of myself, as if what I eat is transformed into nutrition. The joy of harvest can't be concealed, and learning can't be boring.
asking questions before school is only the first step to master new knowledge. Next, dig deep into knowledge points. At this time, we need to pay attention to the following questions:
What do others say about this view? Are there any different comments? How do I judge these comments? Are these views connected with other knowledge points? What is the context of this knowledge point? Is it a basic concept or an extended concept? Can I make a new generation and perfection of this concept? Where can this concept be used? Where are the inapplicable boundary words?
In the process of asking questions and solving problems, we always use Feynman's skills, and we should explain the knowledge points as popularly as possible at every step, and "talk about the topic in the process of solving the problem". After mastering this skill, we can move on to the next step.
step 3: connect all the concepts in series. That is, starting from any knowledge point, get along with all the knowledge points associated with it as much as possible, and then connect them in series to form a network. Each point should be extended as far as possible, as long as "knowledge points can be connected in series without referring to other materials".
the fourth step, proficiency and sublimation, that is, mastery. All relevant knowledge points are stored in the brain. Starting from any point, we can know its context, find its boundary and extension, sort out this knowledge system at any time, and create new connections. This knowledge has infinite vitality. Mastering Feynman skill skillfully and internalizing it into instinct in the learning process can help learners quickly become experts in a certain knowledge field.
I know Feynman skills because of the introduction of Scott Young's book How to Learn Effectively. Know Scott Yang, and because of Zhao Zhou's "open book learning method", I am very happy to meet you after a brief encounter. After reading for so many years, he claims to be the person who reads the most in a certain range, but he suffers from no effect and has not produced any valuable results. Now I finally understand that there is a lot of learning in reading. Books are not just read. What to read and how to read are all learned. Real growth is to read while producing, otherwise it is a waste of good time, delaying business and being self-righteous.
From now on, focus on studying how to study and how to read. Start with the knowledge of "learning" and embark on the right path of learning. The ancients said: If you hear the Tao in the morning, you will die in the evening. However, I want to say, no, I just understand that there are still greater achievements to be made. God has given me a mission, so I have to leave my life, and I will definitely live up to it!