#3 The Ultimate Secret to Learning Faster
Thinking of 10x your learning speed?
You come to the right place.
The protege effect is a psychological phenomenon where teaching others about what you study can retain the information faster and process the information systematically.
This is the reason why we need to set goals if we want to achieve something.
- it gives us a purpose.
- it gives us a direction.
- it provides us with an end goal.
When we teach someone, we are forced to remember the study material and organize it in a way for us to explain in the simplest way so that our listeners can understand what we are trying to convey.
As we are teaching, we are repeating the study material.
This reinforces the memories and fills up the knowledge gap we miss when we are doing the study.
Richard Feynman, the Nobel Laureate physicist, proves this concept through his famous concept of Feynman Technique.
- Simplification- explain as if you are talking to a 10-year-old child.
- Teaching- make sure your listener understand
- Knowledge gap- identify any information you miss.
- Reviewing and refining
- Testing and archiving
How can we incorporate this into our life?
- We can share what we learn on social media.
- We can share what we learn with our friends.
- We can share what we learn through writing a newsletter like what I am doing right now.
This is by far the best learning method I know.
That’s all for today.
Happy Sunday.
