Knowledge retention increases with each stage:
Lecture
Reading – 10%
Audiovisual 20%
Demonstration 30%
Discussion 50%
Practice Doing 75%
Teach others 100%
Richard Feynman style of learning Feynman Technique (Feynman Technique ) two core principles of the learning framework:
1. Teaching: Teaching the newly learned material, with a specific focus on simple language.
2. Iteration: Using the teaching process to expose gaps in knowledge and then iterating on the study workflow to fill those gaps.
This can be evolved into a three-step learning model is as follows:
- Read & Research – Start with broad research (horizontal research), across a topic, then go vertically (vertical research) into aspects of the topic in-depth
- Teach – teaching should force you to distill and synthesize your learnings for someone who is uninitiated on the topic. It also creates a structured feedback loop.
- Assess & Iterate – through teaching you self-assess – reflect on the questions asked by the students to highlight the gaps in your knowledge.
Iterate on the process to close those knowledge gaps.- Were you prepared to respond to the questions?
- Were there specific areas that were exposed as gaps?
- Were there areas of your explanation that felt jargon-heavy? How could you have further simplified the
- language?
- When did the person appear confused? When did you get frustrated?