# The Feynman Learning Technique **Covers**:: **Source**:: [The Feynman Learning Technique](https://fs.blog/feynman-learning-technique/) **Creator**:: [[fs.blog]] # Highlights ##### ^303018859 ###### ^303018859q Information is learned when you can explain it and use it in a wide variety of situations ^303018859 ##### ^303018860 ###### ^303018860q To avoid the pain of being bewildered by the unexpected, the Feynman Technique helps you turn information into knowledge that you can access as easily as a shirt in your closet. ^303018860 ##### ^303018861 highlight_tags:: [[knowledge]], [[epistemology]] ###### ^303018861q “See that bird? It’s a brown-throated thrush, but in Germany it’s called a halzenfugel, and in Chinese they call it a chung ling, and even if you know all those names for it, you still know nothing about the bird. You only know something about people: what they call the bird. Now that thrush sings, and teaches its young to fly, and flies so many miles away during the summer across the country, and nobody knows how it finds its way.” ^303018861