Training Tip: The Feynman Technique
ESCO Institute-HVAC Excellence
Setting standards for the HVACR and building science industries.
During the height of the Cold War, the United States struggled to get Americans interested in becoming engineers needed for us to win the space race. As a result, they turned to Richard Feynman, who not only won the Nobel Prize in Physics, but had a unique ability to make extremely complex ideas simple. ?
Dr. Feynman understood that becoming an effective instructor requires you to have a deep and elegant understanding of the topic.
His four key steps include:?
1.???Identify a topic
2.???Try to explain it to a 5-year-old
3.???Study to fill in knowledge gaps
4.???Organize, convey and review?
Becoming an effective instructor is the ability to simplify, not complicate concepts.?However, don’t forget to get student feedback, to validate they truly understand you.?