Learning New Things
20 Nov 2013
I happened to stumble on the Feynman Technique recently. It’s basically a system for learning new things. It goes a bit like this:
- Choose the concept you wish to understand
- Pretend your teaching the concept to someone else.
- If you get stuck, go back to the book.
- Simplify.
This seems like a pretty good system to me. There have a been a couple of cases in the last month or two when someone has asked me to explain a basic part of my job (what is javascript, what is responsive design) and I found that I was unable to give a clear answer.
I’m going to experiment with the Feynman technique and write some blog posts explaining things about what I do, so that when I am asked I will have clear and concise answers!
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