improvement pill I've been watching a lot of self-improvement videos I've been

reading a lot of books but I can't seem to make any actual change in my life" and

if you're in a situation like this chances are you haven't learned the

concept you're trying to adopt properly a lot of the videos out there including

many of mine only scratch the surface of certain topics there's only so much we

can teach you in a 3 to 5 minute clip and oftentimes this limited amount of

information is not enough to motivate you to make the actual change but if you

understand how and why something works on a very deep level then it becomes

much easier to stick to because if you learned the concept properly it starts

to feel like common sense for example if you really really sat down and learned

about nutrition and you started to uncover the truth about sugar you learn

about exactly what it does to your body about how it interacts with your insulin

your brain function about how it promotes fat storage and you do this

properly to the point where you really understand what sugar does to your body

then it becomes common sense to stay away from it you're gonna say of course

I'm gonna stay away from sugar it's basically poison for my body and

that's the power of learning something properly so how exactly do we do this

how exactly do we make sure that we understand a concept that we're trying

to adopt well the most effective way to learn something is by using what's

called the faman technique invented by the legendary professor faiman a Nobel

prize-winning scientist who was also known as the great explainer he was

known for his ability to explain extremely complicated concepts to just

about anyone and here's how the Feynman technique works there are five steps the

first step is to have a concept in mind that you want to learn properly what is

the concept that you know you should follow but you have a really hard time

doing let's say for example you're trying to lose weight and you know one

thing you should stay away from is sugar one of the concepts you should learn

properly is why sugar is bad the second step is to try to explain how this

concept works as simply as you can you can write your explanation out on a

piece of paper or you can pretend to give a lecture regardless of what you

pick try to explain the concept as if you are teaching a class of 3rd

graders the reason I say 3rd graders is because you want to explain this topic

as simply as you can this means no complicated vocabulary and

simple simple language this forces you to explain the concept at its core which

tests how much you really understand it if we use our example about why sugar is

bad we won't be able to use words like insulin or fatty liver because 3rd

graders don't know what that is the third step is to determine a gap in your

knowledge so during your explanation to your imaginary class of third graders

you're gonna have moments what you realize you don't really understand

something let's say you can't break down the word insulin for your class this

means you don't really know what it is yes you can toss the word around and you

can use it correctly in a sentence but you don't know exactly what it is or how

it works if you did you would be able to explain it the fourth step is to fill in

this gap go back to your reading or go back onto the internet and fill in this

gap of knowledge in our example of insulin this would require you to maybe

look up the Wikipedia page or watch a couple more videos on the topic the

fifth and final step is to repeat the process each time you find a gap of

knowledge in your explanation and you do more research to fill it in you're gonna

have an easier time explaining this concept to your imaginary class of 3rd

graders you want to repeat this process over and over again until finally you

can explain everything there is to know about a concept to your class without

using any complicated words this ensures that you yourself have developed a deep

understanding of exactly why and how a concept works if you take this technique

and apply it to self-improvement you're gonna start finding massive amounts of

success and again this is because when you truly understand the concept when

you know exactly why something works then it becomes much much easier for you

to act upon it because it feels like common sense and this relates back to a

concept I talked about quite often on this channel cognitive dissonance which

is the uncomfortable feeling we get when we have two opposite ideas in our head

someone who truly believes that sugar is bad is going to feel very uncomfortable

if he thinks about eating something that's high in sugar this discomfort

motivates him to stay away from the sugary product learning a

concept properly is extremely effective because it allows you to use cognitive

dissonance like a tool to make changes in your life speaking of learning this

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