one of the most common questions I received from you guys is "Hey
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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