When I first read about Feynman, I was inspired to try to formulate many of these different observations into a concrete method I could apply to my own studies. What resulted was something I named the Feynman Technique and applied extensively during my MIT Challenge. The purpose of using this technique is to help develop intuition about the ideas you are learning. It can be used when you don’t understand an idea at all or simply when you understand something a little but really want to turn it into a deep intuition. The method is quite simple: Write down the concept or problem you want to
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