Learn Smarter: The Feynman Technique, Don’t Know Notebook & Problem Testing

We're experimenting with this new format of borrowed brilliance where every week either Helen or I have found something that we think is intriguing, is interesting, but then really focus on trying to turn what we've learned into something that feels really useful for us at work. The reason we really like Richard Feynman, he was just very curious the way that he approached learning, the way that he asked questions. He has this whole spirit around the more questions the better and actually the more we just close things off that's not very good for our learnings. The Feynman technique.

It's all about teaching what you are learning as though you are teaching it to a child. Number two is the idea of having a don't know notebook and it would just keep a whole running list of things that you didn't know. You know there's that work cliche of don't bring me problems, bring me solutions. Actually, if problems in organisations are seen as something to share and to discuss, you get to very different outcomes. and actually you're much more likely to solve the problems.

Hi, it's Helen from the Squiggly Careers podcast. And before you listen to today's episode, I wanted to let you know about some news that Sarah and I are very excited about, and that is that our new book, Learn Like a Lobster, is now ready to pre-order. We think that learning is so important to people succeeding in their squiggly career, but we recognize that it is not easy to do. And so we wanted to inspire people to look differently at learning and we think that lobsters are the role model that we have been missing. We really, really appreciate it when people pre-order our book.

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