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Richard P. Feynman was arguably the brightest young physics mind in the U.S. at the time. He developed a more holistic, multidisciplinary approach to learning that served him well throughout his career. The combination of ideas, which many different authors outline slightly differently but are holistically the same, is known as The Feynmen Learning Technique. The first step in the process is to pick something that you need to learn and spend time with the new idea until you have internalized it. The key emphasis in that sentence is on the word thinking.