The recipe for real learning and teaching is applied by observing the following four steps:

1. Choose the subject of your preference and start dedicating time to that subject

In a notebook, write down everything you already know about the subject. Then, include the curiosities you discover and add them to the list.

2. Speak as if you were talking to a child

Use your child side in this step, explaining everything in the simplest possible way. Speak as if you were talking to a child.

It sounds silly, but it’s a crucial step in the technique.

Use simple language! Be thorough and express out loud everything you know about the concept that you’ve chosen.

3. Return to the source of your ideas and research more about the theme

In step two, it is very likely that some gaps have not entirely filled in. It is the moment when all the data should make sense to you.

If you realize that you still lack some information that allows you to understand the subject, go back to the source of your understanding and look for it. Only when you can really explain the subject in a way a child would understand, are you ready to go to step 4 .

4. Simplify it even more and use approximate topics for greater clarity of the subject

The review of the theme and the analogies will favor and make your understanding as clear as possible. In this step, it is important to speak aloud, listen to what you are saying, and further simplify the topic.

If you realize that the concept needs to be more understandable, do it. When speaking aloud, try to observe if the explanation at some point was not easily understood.

If this happens, it is a sign that something needs to be improved and maybe some information needs to connect better so that you can talk about it.

Adaptation of Richard Feynman’s Teaching