Jim Kwik explains how learning with the intention to teach it changes everything. When you approach material as if you'll explain it soon, you take better notes, ask deeper questions, and remember more. The explanation effect shows that teaching reinforces what you learned, so you essentially learn it twice.
If you want to learn anything faster, remember it better, teach. Your intention matters more than you think it does. If you learned it as if you were going to have to give a talk about it next week, would your focus be better? Yes. Of course it would. Would you take better notes? Yes. Yes. Would you ask the questions? You would get really involved because you take advantage— in science they call it the explanation effect. The explanation effect says that when you learn something with the intention of explaining it to somebody else, We learn it better, because when you teach something, you get to learn it twice.
The Library of Minds: Brain Coach: How to Stay Sharp When AI Does the Thinking | Jim Kwik
