我最近和 Scott Young 讨论了《 《别闹了，费曼先生》.
Richard Feynman是我最崇拜的解释大师之一。他的传记中有许多故事，捕捉到了好奇心、敬畏感以及用自己的方式弄明白事情的渴望。费曼的方法影响了Scott和我对待学习的方式。
关键要点：
Kalid: I think the first takeaway is recognizing when things make sense and it’s okay for things not to make sense. Something might click, great, if it doesn’t, maybe you can resolve it then or maybe you can write it down later.
Everyone has their own checklist or their own requirements but you should have something… Have a standard for yourself, it’s important.
I think Feynman would stop people and ask them for a plain English example if they were explaining something and he couldn’t understand it. Whatever it is for you, having that standard is important.
Scott: I think if I were to say the biggest takeaway from how Feynman was doing things was to be curious and I think that sounds really simple but you can see how (in the book) he gets himself into situations and how your intuitive response, like what you’d do by reflex, is not actually what he does in the book.
It might be his confidence or his charisma but I think a lot of it is his curiosity. He’s genuinely interested in trying to find out about things.
I feel as though this was brought up in the discussion about this curiosity. A lot of people asked “aren’t interest or curiosity just inherent qualities?”
You know, you can’t just snap your fingers and be as smart as Feynman so you shouldn’t be able to snap your fingers and be as curious. But, I actually disagree here.
I think that curiosity is something that you cultivate and it’s because a lot of the things that push us away from curiosity are these encrusted fears and aversions that we have to things from maybe negative exposures in the past. Particularly through school.
I think if you take it from the perspective that curiosity and interest is something you can cultivate to the extent that you want to tear down those barriers, I think there’s a huge benefit and possibility.
费曼启发了我们自己的学习技巧：
- ADEPT 方法 - 使用类比(Analogies)、图表(Diagrams)、例子(Examples)、简明英语(Plain-English)和技术描述(Technical descriptions)
- 费曼技巧 - 学习新东西时，尝试用简单的术语教给别人（为自己或其他学生做一个ELI5解释）
读到一位诺贝尔奖得主专家不怕承认自己的无知，并将复杂概念分解为更简单的术语（"不，我不明白，能给我举个例子吗？"）。他怀着质疑自身理解的谦逊，以及相信自己最终能弄明白的自信——这是一种我们都能学习的方法。
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