Understand Deeply

Question 1

How do you improve mastery of the basics?

Answer 1

1. Take an area you wish to understand
2. List out all the components
3. Pick one item and spend 30 mins trying to understand it

Question 2

How to figure out what you know?

Answer 2

The Feynman Technique

Take a blank piece of paper and attemp to write a cohrent peice on the topic

Ask:

• Do you have knowledge gaps?
• Do you struggle to think of a core example?
• Do you fail to see the overall big picture that puts the pieces together?

Question 3

How do you sweat the small stuff?

Answer 3

1. Take one small element of a complex issue
2. Understand the sub issues including all its connections and implications

Question 4

What are the steps in “Uncovering One Essential” from all the core ideas in a complicated issue?

Answer 4

Pare the issue back to one core idea and isolate the essential ingredient

Question 5

How do you “say it as you see it”?

Answer 5

Boldly assert what is missing and tepid from your understanding

Question 6

What are the principles of trying on alternatives and sizing up the fit?

Answer 6

1. Temporary embrace an opinion that is counter to your own
2. Withhold judgement

Question 7

What does it mean by “seeing the invisible?”

Answer 7

Applying an adjective to a topic or issue and seeing what it implies

e.g World War / compared to / First World War