Talk to yourself
Communicating is hard. Explaining is more difficult.
Make it easier: talk to yourself.
Ask yourself questions and try to answer them. Take a moment to “chain knowledge.” That means taking information from other sources to explain the new piece of information you learned. See if you can get to the same conclusion.
Sometimes it looks insane, and you’ll feel like that one person looking weird at the bus stop, but wait.
It turns out it isn’t crazy.
Self-explaining has a lot of evidence. You’re explaining why things might be interconnected, and why they matter, and those meaningful distinctions between the two of them.
The quote is from Ulrich Boser, whose new book called “Learn Better” talks about techniques to keep what you are trying to keep in your head to stay there.
So talk to yourself, and you’ll be able to talk to other people later :-).
From the desk of Adam Thomas 