Convenient technology for efficiently learning things What is "Feynman Technique"?

ByThomas Mueller

"Knowing the name of things" is also one of the knowledge, but it is the real knowledge only knowing the contents, not only the name. There are various ways to increase knowledge, but among them, there is a variety of ways to do this, including the name of Richard Feynman, a physicist who has won the Nobel Prize in PhysicsFeynman TechniqueIs known as a useful learning method for a variety of things.

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Mr. Feynman is an excellent physicist and has won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 with Mr. Shinichiro Tominaga and Julian Schwinger. And then, from 1961 to 1963 the book "Feynman physics" based on the lecture at the California Institute of Technology, autobiographies collecting humorous episodes "You must be joking, FeynmanIt is also known.


"Official" that Feynman used for better understanding is "Feynman TechniqueIt is what is called. The technique consists of 4 stages.

1: Choose "Concept"
First, I will set what I want to learn. Its contents are "Gravity" or "World History" whatever you like, anyway set "What you want to learn". After setting, write it at the beginning of the blank sheet.

2: "Tell people" about that "concept"
Next, with regard to the "concept" that I wrote at the beginning of the blank sheet, I write out what I know about paper as "when teaching to someone". However, at this time, the object to be taught is a student or a child. This is because it is unclear as to whether it is understandable or not in the state that "It can be explained by using technical terms or complicated words". By trying to explain with plain language, you can see how far you understand the concept.

3: Return to textbook (original material)
When you write down what you know to teach to people, you can see "the range you know" and you can notice the lack of knowledge. When it is understood that this is a valuable point, if I find that it is missing, I will return to the textbooks and materials again and "re-learn", I will write in the note I found again.

4: Review and simplify
This completes the note at the beginning with the concept "I want to learn", then "what I knew and what I knew". Finally, read this note and reconfirm if you are using technical terms or complicated terms, read aloud if necessary. If the explanation is complicated here or there is an unclear explanation, it means that "I do not understand it yet", "There is something to do to understand", so further learning and understanding You can deepen it.

ByAndrew Bowden

Mr. Feynman's father was a salesman and should have had no special scientific knowledge, but he seems to have returned an easy-to-understand answer to the question "Why?" From Feynman and his sister Joan. Also, as mentioned above, Mr. Feynman became the world's leading physicist, and Mr. Joan is also a physicist in the same way. It may not be a dream to become a new Feynman if you use Feynman technique.