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The Feynman Technique is the best way to learn anything quickly. Devised by a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, it leverages the power of teaching for better learning.

The Feynman Learning Technique

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EXPLORE YOUR CURIOSITY

1. "You are a jigsaw puzzle piece of a certain shape. You could change your shape to fit an existing hole in the world. That was the traditional plan. But there's another way that can often be better for you and for the world: to grow a new puzzle around you."

Grow the Puzzle Around You

2. "It’s not true that more feedback is better. It’s also not true that coaches provide the best feedback. There are two main types of feedback. There is feedback that’s internally generated and feedback that’s externally generated."

The Velocity of Skill Development

3. "There are three variants of procrastination, depending on what you do instead of working on something: you could work on (a) nothing, (b) something less important, or (c) something more important. That last type, I'd argue, is good procrastination. [...] Good procrastination is avoiding errands to do real work. Good in a sense, at least. The people who want you to do the errands won't think it's good. But you probably have to annoy them if you want to get anything done."

Good and Bad Procrastination

A QUOTE TO THINK ABOUT

“One lesson I’ve learned is that if the job I do were easy, I wouldn’t derive so much satisfaction from it. The thrill of winning is in direct proportion to the effort I put in before. I also know, from long experience, that if you make an effort in training when you don’t especially feel like making it, the payoff is that you will win games when you are not feeling your best. That is how you win championships, that is what separates the great player from the merely good player. The difference lies in how well you’ve prepared.”

— Rafael Nadal in Rafa (p. 287)

TINY THOUGHT

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Until next week,
Shane

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