Comments by "" (@pierreollivier1) on "Advice on how to learn effectively | Robert Breedlove and Lex Fridman" video.

  1. the best technique I know to learn things fast is to talk a lot about it, and role play you being a teacher in that domain, for example when i used to read a lot about economics, and listen to a lot of podcast i would roleplay in my head being interviewed or giving a lecture on that subject. And there's a lot of benefit to it : 1- The first one is that it improve your conscious understanding of the subject, when you learn about something it's almost like you have learned nothing and everything, and when roleplaying lecturing about a subject when speaking you'll have that unconscious understanding that will give you the intuition to correct yourself, or to explain yourself better and instead of crystalizing the surface level understanding you'll really get the deep understanding of the subject. 2- Second is that it will tremendously improve your ability to communicate with other, because when you teach (even when you are just pretending) you'll find ways to illustrate your ideas in such a way that it would be understandable for 12yo, and that's true understanding, if you can explain something complex to a 12yo and he get it. 3- Finally it will improve your ability to think and more often than not you'll end up connecting dots between different knowledge and you'll come up with your own ideas, that come only from you, this will give you very nuanced and interesting opinions, and most people will really appreciate and value such ability to think.
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