Feynman Technique, which is named for the famous physicist, Richard Feynman. There are four steps to this: choose a topic or skill, summarize or demonstrate it as succinctly as possible, seek out your blind spots through how easy or difficult the previous step was, and then use an analogy.

Remember. Retrieving, recognizing, and recalling relevant knowledge from long‐term memory. Understand. Constructing meaning from oral, written, and graphic messages through interpreting, exemplifying, classifying, summarizing, inferring, comparing, and explaining. Apply. Carrying out or using a procedure for executing, or implementing. Analyze. Bre

In elaborative interrogation, the learner (you) creates questions as if working through a task. They inquire how and why certain objects work. Nothing is safe from this inquiry. They go through their study materials to determine the answers and try to find connections between all the ideas they’re learning about. The answers the student gives form

In almost all applications, you’ll find that only a relatively small number of subskills are absolutely vital to effectively practicing a larger skill. Deconstructing them and narrowing your focus can get you much further than you can imagine.

Remember that the overall point of elaborative interrogation is to make sure there are no holes in your understanding.

Deconstruction is taking individual elements, observing what they are and what they do, and understanding how their smaller function fits into the bigger, overall process. Doing so makes self-training and practice far less formidable, as you can concentrate on developing the subskills one by one.

Not every skill, hobby, or piece of information is created equally, especially in terms of what will create a shift in your life.

Not all subskills are important at all levels, and indeed, most won’t be important when you are just beginning to learn a new skill. Understand what makes a difference and put your efforts where they will matter the most.

“After 1,000 words, you’ll know 70% of the words in any average text, and 2,000 words provide you with 80% text coverage.”