The Feynman technique: a hard idea, explained simply

Name an idea you find hard. Winda explains it in plain words, with one comparison from daily life, and then asks you to explain it back.

Explain it simply

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Gravity, explained with a ball on a trampoline.
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What you get

The idea in one sentence
The whole idea with no technical term in it.
The explanation in plain words
Short paragraphs in which each technical term is first said in everyday words and then named.
One comparison, and its limit
Something from daily life that works the same way, and the point where the comparison stops being true.
Where people lose the thread
The two or three places that usually confuse learners, each with the plain reason.
Questions to explain it back
Three questions you answer in your own words. If you cannot, you have found what to study next.

What the Feynman technique is

The Feynman technique is named after the physicist Richard Feynman, who was known for explaining hard physics in ordinary language. The technique has four steps: choose an idea, explain it as if to someone who has never studied the subject, find the places where your explanation breaks down, and go back to the source to repair them.

It works because a plain explanation hides nothing. Technical terms let you repeat a sentence without understanding it. When you must say the same thing in everyday words, you find out at once which parts you only memorized.

A simple explanation written for you is the second step done by someone else, so it is a model and not the exercise. Read it, close it, and explain the idea yourself, aloud or in writing. The questions at the end are there for that. Where you get stuck, ask Winda about that one point, or go back to your material.

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Questions

It is close, but the reader it writes for is a smart adult who is new to the subject. The words are plain and the content stays true: nothing is left out only to make it short. For an explanation at three levels of difficulty, use the Explain like I'm 5 template.

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