BRX Pro Tip: Teach Someone Like Richard Feynman Did
Stone Payton: [00:00:00] And we are back with Business RadioX Pro Tips. Stone Payton, Lee Kantor here with you. Lee, you have suggested that we teach someone like Richard Feynman did. Say more about that.
Lee Kantor: [00:00:15] Yeah, Richard Feynman is a scientist who’s very well renowned and everybody should read at least some of his things. He’s a real smart guy that knew a lot about a lot of different things. really interesting scientist who can take something complex and then explain it to somebody in a simple way so they can understand it.
Lee Kantor: [00:00:35] And that’s kind of the basis of this pro tip today. One of his core tenets when it came to teaching was that whenever you’re teaching a new concept, teach it as if you were trying to teach it to an elementary school child. When you do this, this forces you to get rid of all the complexity and all the jargon, and you have to teach it in the simplest way possible.
Lee Kantor: [00:01:00] And if you’re saying, well, that’s it’s too complex. I’m not able to do that. If you’re struggling to teach somebody at that level, then you might not know the concept as well as you think you understand it. And then when you have that kind of a gap, and you’re having a hard time explaining it to somebody, then that’s where you have to go back and relearn something so that you can figure out how to explain it more simply.
Lee Kantor: [00:01:27] And this act of teaching is a great way for yourself to really demonstrate an understanding of something. And it’s a great place to know that you truly understand it if you can teach it to somebody else. So whenever you’re learning something new, try and teach whatever you’ve just learned as quickly as possible to somebody else, and that will help you lock in that learning and it’ll help you get that depth of knowledge to be able to explain it simply. That shows that you really do understand it. So that’s a great way to learn something. And teaching is a great way to learn.
