The Ultimate Strategy for Studying Anything (Feynman Technique)

The most popular piece of studying advice I’ve ever come up with was the Feynman Technique. While the technique itself is only loosely based on Richard Feynman’s practices, the idea of self-explanations took off and became a studying meme that has since gone far beyond my own audience.

The basic idea for the technique is simple:

1. Pick an idea you don’t understand very well.

2. On a blank sheet of paper, write an explanation for the idea as if you are teaching it to…